input:ifp : adds IFP keyword in OPTION (QUIETCAST, ...) clause in the generated SQL. The value of this define is not used ATM, an empty string is safe for future extensions.

input:same-as : works like input:ifp but adds SAME_AS keyword.

input:storage : selects quad map storage to use. The value is an IRI of storage, the default value is, of course, virtrdf:DefaultQuadStorage. If the value is an empty string then only quads from RDF_VIEW are used. This is a good choice for low-level admin procedures, for two reasons: they will not interfere with any changes in virtrdf:DefaultQuadStorage and they will continue to work even if all compiler's metadata are corrupted, including the description of virtrdf:DefaultQuadStorage (define input:storage "" switches the SPARQL compiler to a small set of metadata that are built in server C code and thus are very hard to corrupt by users).

input:inference : specifies the name of inference rule set to use.

input:param (and synonyms input:params, sql:param, sql:params) : declares a variable name as a protocol parameter. The SPARQL query can refer to protocol parameter X via variable with special syntax of name ?::X . If a query text should be made by query builder that does not understand SPARQL-BI extensions then the text may contain variable ?X and define input:param "X" . This does not work for positional parameters, one can not replace a reference to ?::3 with ?3 and define input:param "3".

input:grab-var : Network Resource Fetch values of variable;

input:grab-iri : Network Resource Fetch the constant IRI;

input:grab-all : Network Resource Fetch all constants and variables of the query;

input:grab-seealso (and synonym input:grab-follow-predicate) : sets predicate that tells where to Fetch more Network Resource data about a subject;

input:grab-limit : how many resources can be fetched;

input:grab-depth : how many iterations can be done, sponging additional data on each iteration;

input:grab-base : base to resolve relative IRIs before passing to Sponger;

input:grab-resolver : IRI resolving procedure (i.e., one that turns base and relative IRI to an absolute IRI);

input:grab-destination : single resource that should be filled in with results of all fetchings;

input:grab-loader : a name of procedure that retrieve the resource via HTTP, parse it and store it.

input:grab-intermediate : extends the set of IRIs to sponge, useful in combination with input:grab-seealso. If present then for a given subject, Network Resource Fetch will retrieve not only values of see-also predicates for that subject but the subject itself. The define value is not used in current implementation.

input:grab-group-destination : resembles input:grab-destination but sponges will create individual graphs for Network Resource Fetch results, and in additional to this common routine, a copy of each Network Resource Fetch result is added to the resource specified by the value of input:grab-group-destination. input:grab-destination redirects loadings, input:grab-group-destination duplicates them.

get:soft : "soft" or "replacing", depending on mode of loading source graph;

get:uri : an URI of web resource where the graph should come from (e.g., a local mirror);

get:method : "GET" or "MGET", depending on loading the resource itself or loading metadata about the resource;

get:refresh : limits the lifetime of a local cached copy of the source, the value is in seconds. Should be used in combination with get:soft;

get:proxy : the proxy server to use, as "host:port" string.

sql:assert-user : defines the user who is supposed to be the single "proper" use for the query. If the compiler is launched by other user, an error is signaled. The typical use is define sql:assist-user "dba". This is too weak to be a security measure, but may help in debugging of security issues.

sql:gs-app-callback : application-specific callback that returns permission bits of a given graph;

sql:gs-app-uid : application-specific user id to use in callback.

	See Also:
	RDF Graph Security

sql:globals-mode : tells how to print names of global variables, supported values are "XSLT" (print colon before name of global variable and "SQL" (print as usual).

sql:log-enable : value that will be passed to SPARUL procedures and there it will be passed to log_enable() BIF. Thus define sql:log-enable N will result in log_enable(N, 1) at the beginning of the operation and other log_enable() call will restore previous mode of transaction log at exit from the procedure or at any error signalled from it.

sql:table-option : value will be added as an option to each triple in the query and later it will be printed in TABLE OPTION (...) clause of source table clause. This works only for SQL code for plain triples from RDF_QUAD, fragments of queries related to RDF Views will remain unchanged.

sql:select-option : value will be added as an global OPTION () clause of the generated SQL SELECT. This clause is always printed, it is always at least OPTION (QUIETCAST, ...). The most popular use case is define sql:table-option "ORDER" to tell the SQL compiler execute joins in the order of their use in the query (this can make query compilation much faster but the compilation result can be terrible if you do not know precisely what you're doing and not inspected execution plan of the generated SQL query).

sql:describe-mode : sets procedures that will produce the result of a DESCRIBE query. The pragma is ignored for other types of SPARQL queries. In the default mode, the result contains all X ?p ?o and all ?s ?p X triples for each given X. In "SPO" mode, the result contains X ?p ?o triples only. In "CBD" mode, the result contains concise bound descriptions of given subjects. Application developers may add more modes.

sql:signal-void-variables : the most useful debugging variable if Linked Data Views are in use. It tells the SPARQL compiler to signal an error if it can prove that some variable can never be bound. Usually it means error in query, like typo in IRI or totally wrong triple pattern.

output:valmode : tells the compiler which SQL datatypes should be used for output values. ODBC clients and the like known nothing about RDF and expect plain SQL values, so the appropriate value for them is "SQLVAL" and that's the default. When a Virtuoso/PL procedure is RDF-aware and keeps results for further passing to other SPARQL queries or some low-level RDF routines, the value "LONG" tells the compiler to preserve RDF boxes as is and to return IRI IDs instead of IRI string value. Third possible value, "AUTO", is for dirty hackers that do not want any conversion of any sort at the output to read the SQL output of SPARQL front-end, find the format of each column and add the needed conversions later. You will probably never need it.

output:format : tells the compiler that the query should produce a string output with the serialization of the result, not a result set. There are three of them because the caller, like SPARQL web service endpoint, may not know the actual type of the query that should be executed. The value of output:format is used for SELECT and data manipulation queries, if specified, it can also be used for CONSTRUCT, DESCRIBE or ASK, if it is specified but related output:dict-format or output:scalar-format is not.

output:scalar-format : tells the compiler that the query should produce a string output with the serialization of the result, not a result set. There are three of them because the caller, like SPARQL web service endpoint, may not know the actual type of the query that should be executed. The value of output:scalar-format is used for ASK queries only, if specified.

output:dict-format : tells the compiler that the query should produce a string output with the serialization of the result, not a result set. There are three of them because the caller, like SPARQL web service endpoint, may not know the actual type of the query that should be executed. The value of output:dict-format is used for CONSTRUCT and DESCRIBE queries only, if specified.

"RDF/XML",

"TURTLE" (and "TTL" is a synonym),

"JSON" (canonical JSON for result sets, Talis-style JSON for CONSTRUCT and DESCRIBE),

"JSON;ODATA" (oData-style JSON for CONSTRUCT and DESCRIBE, error otherwise),

"RDFA;XHTML" (only for CONSTRUCT and DESCRIBE, error otherwise),

"ATOM;XML" (only for CONSTRUCT and DESCRIBE as well).

"HTTP+XML mime/type",

"HTTP+TTL mime/type",

"HTTP+NT mime/type". A MIME type in value will be placed in the returned header, it should be separated from the starting keyword with one white space.

output:route : works only for SPARUL operators and tells the SPARQL compiler to generate procedure names that differ from default. As a result, the effect of operator will depend on application. That is for tricks. E.g., consider an application that extracts metadata from DAV resources stored in the Virtuoso and put them to RDF storage to make visible from outside. When a web application has permissions and credentials to execute a SPARUL query, the changed metadata can be written to the DAV resource (and after that the trigger will update them in the RDF storage), transparently for all other parts of application.

output:maxrows : limits the number of rows in the returned result set. The integer value is expected, the positive integer value is obviously recommended.

input:grab-depth,

input:grab-limit,

output:maxrows,

sql:log-enable,

sql:signal-void-variables

get:method,

get:proxy,

get:query,

get:refresh,

get:soft,

get:uri