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: 11133
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 0.00011891284
Overall Rank: 1,456 | 89.89%
DOI: -

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4,755	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	5.9375171e-05
4,982	Interactive Query Synthesis from Input-Output Examples	2017	SIGMOD	5.7817493e-05
6,235	New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics	2017	VLDB	5.1386078e-05
7,276	DICE: Data Discovery by Example	2021	VLDB	4.773228e-05
7,868	Learning Over Dirty Data Without Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	4.6276013e-05
8,338	Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples	2019	SIGMOD	4.538469e-05
8,382	EQUI-VOCAL: Synthesizing Queries for Compositional Video Events from Limited User Interactions	2023	VLDB	4.5263687e-05
8,679	FormaT5: Abstention and Examples for Conditional Table Formatting with Natural Language	2024	VLDB	4.4644049e-05
8,801	Constructing Expressive Relational Queries with Dual-Specification Synthesis	2020	CIDR	4.4437822e-05
8,892	Generation of Training Examples for Tabular Natural Language Inference	2023	SIGMOD	4.4233018e-05
9,019	Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data	2024	VLDB	4.4052498e-05
9,219	SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery	2018	SIGMOD	4.3672182e-05
9,695	The Data Interaction Game	2018	SIGMOD	4.298211e-05
9,885	Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias	2021	SIGMOD	4.2580321e-05
9,930	Wred: Workload Reduction for Scalable Index Tuning	2024	SIGMOD	4.2469394e-05
10,197	Qualitative Join Discovery in Data Lakes using Examples	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,160	Extremal Fitting Problems for Conjunctive Queries	2023	PODS	4.1905499e-05
11,247	Cornet: Learning Table Formatting Rules By Example	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3	Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing	2008	SIGMOD	0.0024217964
994	Assisted Querying using Instant-Response Interfaces	2007	SIGMOD	0.00014745808
1,010	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014644808
1,025	Query Steering for Interactive Data Exploration	2013	CIDR	0.00014600179
1,575	Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries	2013	SIGMOD	0.00011288804
2,081	Sample-Driven Schema Mapping	2012	SIGMOD	9.58883e-05
3,076	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	7.6063803e-05
3,098	SQL QueRIE Recommendations	2010	VLDB	7.572006e-05
4,168	Automatic Example Queries for Ad Hoc Databases	2011	SIGMOD	6.3822979e-05
4,338	SPIDER: a Schema mapPIng DEbuggeR	2006	VLDB	6.271442e-05

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