Database Usability

Summary: Usability takes center stage in DBMS, advocating higher UI abstraction to cut people costs despite cheaper hardware. It critiques current relational usability versus older systems and outlines four growth axes: better interfaces, richer semantics, support for new data types (text, arrays, noncoded data) with integrated stats/graphics/word-processing, and modern interfaces (voice, 3D, visuals). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2262
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 5.6073178e-05
Overall Rank: 7,485 | 48.65%
DOI: 10.1145/582192.582194

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Authors

1. C. J. Date

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{date_sigmod83,
        title = {{Database Usability}},
        author = {Date, C. J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '83},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582192.582194},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582192.582194},
        year = {1983}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
314	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00021574636

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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