Hello Christoph, I've been working on a SQL parser ( ) which might be useful for your project, although it might be a bit heavy weight (its feature scope getting more and more out of control...). Adding support for parsing ? placeholder statements is on my todo list, I could bump it up to the top if that would be useful to you. Also, have you checked out MetaHDBC ( ). I think it has similar goals to your project. 2009/11/13 Colin Paul Adams < col ... @ >: Why would hesql be an improvement for me? It sounds like several steps backwards? The last few paragraphs on this page (comment dated November 4, 2008 at 9:31 pm, starting with 'Second, MetaHDBC is a thin layer above a DBMS, as compared to ...') give some reasons why an approach like this might sometimes be preferred to a haskelldb-like approach, different situations can recommend one or the other. Thanks, Jake Wheat _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Hask ... @ Hi, The Call For Papers for Sun's 2009 CommunityOne conference is now open. For 2009, there will be an East Coast and West Coast event: CommunityOne East - March 18-19, 2009 - New York City CommunityOne West - June 1-2, 2009 - San Francisco Deadline to submit speaking abstracts: Dec. 11, 2008 For more information on these events: < If you are interested in submitting a talk: < Thanks, Ted Leung Sun Microsystems -- Support the Python Software Foundation: