16. An article of manufacture according to claim 14 wherein if said read line of source code is an SQL statement, said compilation of said read line of source code processes and maintains the scope of variables.
14. An article of manufacture comprising: a computer usable medium having computer readable program code means embodied therein for causing a compilation from source code to p-code or machine-language instructions, wherein the source code contains high level source code embedded with SQL statements, said computer readable program code means in said article of manufacture comprising: computer readable program code means for causing a computer to read the source code one line at a time and generate a read line of source code; computer readable program code means for causing a computer to determine whether said read line of source code is high-level source code or an SQL statement; and computer readable program code means for causing a computer to compile said read line of source code to p-code or machine-language instructions, wherein if said read line of source code is an SQL statement, said compilation of said read line of source code occurs in a one-pass parsing mechanism.