Abstract: An application programming interface may alter the inferences made by a set of conventions that may infer database objects from memory objects in an application. The changes or overrides to the inferences may be applied when the application is executed and may cause the database objects to be created or organized in a different manner than when the original inferences were used. A configuration database may store the inferences and overrides, and may be referenced when the conventions are applied. The configuration database may be incrementally updated so that any changes or overrides are persisted to the next version of an application.

Abstract: A programming environment may use a set of conventions that may infer database objects from memory objects or memory objects from database objects. The inferred objects may be referenced and used in the programming environment after being created by the set of conventions. The set of conventions may be added to or modified to create different results that are inferred by the conventions. Some conventions may be dependent on other conventions, and the dependencies may be modified by reordering the conventions or otherwise redefining the dependencies. In some embodiments, a versioning system may manage different versions of the convention sets for various upgrade scenarios.