Statistical relational tables for statistical database management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Office-by-example: an integrated office system and database manager
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Extended algebra and calculus for nested relational databases
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Time-by-Example Query Language for Historical Databases
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
NFQL: the natural forms query language
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A Relational Calculus with Set Operators, Its Safety, and Equivalent Graphical Languages
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Query processing techniques in the summary-table-by-example database query language
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Human factors study of two screen-oriented query languages: STBE and QBE
Information and Software Technology
Equivalence of Relational Algebra and Relational Calculus Query Languages Having Aggregate Functions
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
FORMANAGER: an office forms management system
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The system for business automation (SBA): programming language
Communications of the ACM
PICQUERY: A High Level Query Language for Pictorial Database Management
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Abe: a query language for constructing aggregates-by-example
SSDBM'81 Proceedings of the 1st LBL Workshop on Statistical database management
Towards a unified visual database access
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Classifying Ambiguities in a Visual Spatial Language
Geoinformatica
A Graphical Query Language: VISUAL and Its Query Processing
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Extendible Arrays for Statistical Databases and OLAP Applications
SSDBM '96 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
A semantically advanced querying methodology for medical knowledge and decision support
Knowledge media in healthcare
A visual interface for synchronous collaboration and negotiated transactions
AVI '96 Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces
The SANDBOX: a virtual reality interface to scientific databases
SSDBM'1994 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
A scientific database system for polymers and materials engineering needs
SSDBM'1994 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
A visual query interface for a customisable schema visualisation system
IDEAS'97 Proceedings of the 1997 international conference on International database engineering and applications symposium
Querying event sequences by exact match or similarity search: Design and empirical evaluation
Interacting with Computers
Desktop objects: directly manipulating data and meta data
Interfaces'96 Proceedings of the 1996 international conference on Interfaces to Databases
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Several user-friendly graphical database query languages that let users formulate a query by specifying a graphically aided example on the screen are compared. One of the earliest such languages, M.M. Zloof's (1977) Query-by-Example, is described. Other languages discussed are Aggregates-by-Example, Summary-Table-by-Example, and Query-by-Statistical-Relational-Table for statistical and scientific databases; Time-by-Example for historical databases; Generalized-Query-by-Example for relational, network, and hierarchical databases; Office-by-Example, Formanager, the Natural Forms Query Language, and System-for-Business-Automation for office environments; and Picquery and Query-by-Pictorial-Example for pictorial (image) databases. The basic features, query specification and interpretation, object manipulation, query language constructs, and query processing techniques used in each of the languages are discussed.