[Monetdb-developers] MAL access to tables created with SQL

Hello, how is it possible to access in a MAL client session (mclient -l mal) the BATs of tables which were created previously in sql? I have tried different versions of bat.new, and bbp.bind. I tried different naming schemes (e.g. "tablename_columnname" which was mentioned somewhere in the docs), but I always get Referenced BAT not found And when I try to use sql.bind, I get SQLException:mvc:MAL_SCENARIO_PARSER not initialized Another question: is there a way of seeing the MAL translation of sql queries? EXPLAIN works great for SELECT statements, but it doesn't translate DDL expressions like CREATE TABLE. Many thanks Kambiz