Breathing Life into Database Textbooks

Summary: Interactive tablet textbook embedding a full DBMS so examples, queries, figures and explanations are live, editable, and executable. Enables rapid feedback and wireless instructor analytics for real‑time assessment and scalable interactive demos. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 248
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2015
Pagerank: 5.2747676e-05
Overall Rank: 9,410 | 35.44%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Arnab Nandi (Ohio State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nandi_cidr15,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '15},
        title = {{Breathing Life into Database Textbooks}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Nandi, Arnab},
        year = {2015}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,759	Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples	2019	SIGMOD	6.5207388e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,946	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.93259e-05

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