8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising: generating a merged query from the plurality of scripts; adding bodies of each of the plurality of scripts into the merged query; generating a merged query script starting with the merged query, perpending any external load operations, an appending any external store operations to execute the merged query; and passing the merged query script to a query interpreter and optimizer.
9. The method according to claim 8 , further comprising: adding a description of the merged query script into the catalog of scripts, the description of the merged query script comprising descriptions of the inputs, descriptions of the outputs, and sufficient information to enable the merged query to be constructed.