US Patent 7526503 Interactive schema translation with instance-level mapping

A system and method facilitating data access operations is provided. The system can facilitate an executable, instance-level interaction between a source model (e.g., schema) expressed in a first metamodel (e.g., object-oriented metamodel) and a target model expressed in a second metamodel (e.g., SQL metamodel). The system can produce instance mappings to round-trip the data between the source schema and the generated target schema. Further, an abstraction component can be employed to translate the data access operations on the object model into SQL queries and updates.