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The INA: A Simple Query Language with Only Attribute Names

Summary: INA lets users query by domain terms and attribute names, treats the schema as a universal relation, and resolves attribute-relations bindings to SQL. It keeps a vocab with browsing, and in Army prototypes it produced queries comparable to analyst-written ones. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2567
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1990
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DOI
10.1145/93597.98750

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@inproceedings{blum_sigmod90,
        title = {{The INA: A Simple Query Language with Only Attribute Names}},
        author = {Blum, Bruce I. and Semmel, Ralph D.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/93597.98750},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.98750},
        year = {1990}
}

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