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Ask 3a022db

Ask is a library for programming with relational databases in OCaml. It provides:

Combinators to describe tables and translate their rows to custom OCaml values.

A mechanism for typing SQL statement parameters and their results.

SQL generation helpers including schema generation from table descriptions.

A query language embedded in plain OCaml. Queries are typed, composable and compile to a single, flat, SQL query (optional and experimental).

Support for SQLite3 databases (optional). Run SQL statements and generate OCaml table descriptions for existing databases.

Manuals

These manuals are available:

The Sqlite3 howto explains how to get started to query an existing sqlite database.
The Ask database modelling conventions provides conventions to model databases in OCaml with Ask.
The SQL statement typing howto explains the low-level mecanism to type SQL statements.