Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction

Summary: Query From Examples (QFE) enables non-experts to iteratively construct SQL queries from input–output examples. It avoids synthetic distinguishers and instead uses near-original D,R pairs to minimize user effort, evaluated on SQLShare data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11132
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.00011889802
Overall Rank: 1,459 | 89.86%
DOI: -

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2,982	FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering	2018	SIGMOD	7.7801984e-05
3,661	Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity	2019	VLDB	6.8689912e-05
3,663	Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries	2017	VLDB	6.8647221e-05
4,758	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9422515e-05
4,980	Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples	2017	SIGMOD	5.7873101e-05
6,237	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1435341e-05
7,303	DICE: Data Discovery by Example	2021	VLDB	4.7684686e-05
7,867	Learning Over Dirty Data Without Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	4.6320452e-05
8,344	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.5428111e-05
8,383	EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions	2023	VLDB	4.5307128e-05
8,683	FormaT5: Abstention and Examples for Conditional Table Formatting with Natural Language	2024	VLDB	4.4686885e-05
8,802	Constructing Expressive Relational Queries with Dual-Specification Synthesis	2020	CIDR	4.4480274e-05
8,892	Generation of Training Examples for Tabular Natural Language Inference	2023	SIGMOD	4.4275457e-05
9,035	Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data	2024	VLDB	4.4039656e-05
9,216	SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery	2018	SIGMOD	4.3714077e-05
9,696	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	4.3023337e-05
9,886	Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias	2021	SIGMOD	4.2621158e-05
9,929	Wred: Workload Reduction for Scalable Index Tuning	2024	SIGMOD	4.2510122e-05
10,197	Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
11,157	Extremal Fitting Problems for Conjunctive Queries	2023	PODS	4.1945683e-05
11,245	Cornet: Learning Table Formatting Rules By Example	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0024183614
994	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014755845
1,009	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014653644
1,023	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00014611863
1,572	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011298251
2,078	Sample-Driven Schema Mapping	2012	SIGMOD	9.599707e-05
3,070	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	7.6137064e-05
3,093	SQL QueRIE Recommendations	2010	VLDB	7.5782293e-05
4,173	Automatic Example Queries for Ad Hoc Databases	2011	SIGMOD	6.3874627e-05
4,340	SPIDER: a Schema mapPIng DEbuggeR	2006	VLDB	6.2769021e-05

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