Query By Diagram: A Graphical Environment For Querying Databases
Summary: QBD* is a graphical query-by-diagram tool enabling non-experts to query ER schemas, with relational completeness and recursive queries. Innovations: set ops on same-id tables; schema refinement and metaschema querying; path contraction/ISA replacement. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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| 10,133 | A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
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| 3,964 | Lessons from a "Living In a Database" Graphical Query Interface | 1984 | SIGMOD | 6.5826501e-05 |
| 12,974 | DYNAMIC QUERY INTERPRETATION IN RELATIONAL DATABASES (Extended abstract) | 1987 | PODS | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 8,111 | Databases will Visualize Queries too* | 2011 | VLDB | 4.5842786e-05 |
| 4,315 | Towards a Unified Visual Database Access | 1993 | SIGMOD | 6.2885419e-05 |
| 492 | Query by Output | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00021974699 |
| 4,365 | Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.2542811e-05 |
| 5,593 | A Graph-Oriented Object Model for Database End-User Interfaces | 1990 | SIGMOD | 5.4202859e-05 |
| 14,073 | QBI: Query By Icons | 1995 | SIGMOD | - |
| 5,452 | QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4999397e-05 |
| 723 | GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00017542556 |