This volume contains the papers presented at the 14th Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2013) held on August 30th, 2013, in Riva del Garda, co-located with the 39th International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB 2013). They cover a wide range of topics including the application of programming language techniques to further the expressiveness of database languages, schema management, and the practical use of XPath. To complement this technical program, DBPL 2013 featured three invited talks by Serge Abiteboul (Inria), J\'er\^ome Sim\'eon (IBM), and Soren Lassen (Facebook).

翻译：本卷载有2013年8月30日在Riva del Garda举行的第14次数据库方案编制语言专题讨论会(DBPL 2013)上提交的论文,该专题讨论会与第39次大型数据库问题国际会议(VLDB 2013)合用同一地点,涉及广泛的议题,包括应用编程语言技术来进一步表达数据库语言、系统管理和XPath的实际使用。作为对本技术方案的补充,DBPL 2013有Serge Abiteboul(Inria)、J\'eríome Sim\'eon(IBM)和Soren Lassen(Facebook)邀请的三次会谈。