I-Rex: An Interactive Relational Query Explainer for SQL
Summary: Interactive SQL trace preserving syntax for complex queries with correlated subqueries to explain evaluation. Small counterexample provenance for SQL to diagnose incorrect results vs a reference query, enabling focused debugging and regression testing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Zhengjie Miao
- 2. Tiangang Chen
- 3. Alexander Bendeck
- 4. Kevin Day
- 5. Sudeepa Roy
- 6. Jun Yang
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,565 | Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality | 2022 | VLDB | 5.0033542e-05 |
| 9,709 | QO-Insight: Inspecting Steered Query Optimizers | 2023 | VLDB | 4.2951473e-05 |
| 10,864 | Exploring Exploratory Querying | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | Provenance Semirings | 2007 | PODS | 0.00078516827 |
| 4,733 | A SQL Debugger Built from Spare Parts: Turning a SQL:1999 Database System into Its Own Debugger | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.9555572e-05 |
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| 9,637 | TracEx: Understanding and Analyzing Database Traces | 2024 | CIDR | 4.3068069e-05 |
| 5,743 | Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.3432106e-05 |
| 11,671 | RATest: Explaining Wrong Relational Queries Using Small Examples | 2019 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |