The analysis, transformation, and optimization of SQL queries can be streamlined and simplified when the incoming SQL queries show little (or: less) syntactic variety. This thesis will design a normal form for SQL queries that reduces the number of special cases, syntactic oddities, and countless abbreviations in SQL. The resulting SQL queries will be somewhat more verbose and explicit but exhibit syntactic regularity. Normalization is equivalence-preserving (but headache-reducing ;-).

Based on our group’s Haskell-based parser for (Postgre)SQL queries, the student will implement the normalization transformation in Haskell.

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