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 | 4.1905499e-05 |
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| 3,969 | Lessons from a "Living In a Database" Graphical Query Interface | 1984 | SIGMOD | 6.5761307e-05 |
| 8,115 | Databases will Visualize Queries too* | 2011 | VLDB | 4.5800219e-05 |
| 12,985 | DYNAMIC QUERY INTERPRETATION IN RELATIONAL DATABASES (Extended abstract) | 1987 | PODS | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 4,308 | Towards a Unified Visual Database Access | 1993 | SIGMOD | 6.2824978e-05 |
| 491 | Query by Output | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00021960753 |
| 4,361 | Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results | 2016 | SIGMOD | 6.2482689e-05 |
| 5,600 | A Graph-Oriented Object Model for Database End-User Interfaces | 1990 | SIGMOD | 5.4162646e-05 |
| 14,087 | QBI: Query By Icons | 1995 | SIGMOD | - |
| 5,459 | QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.4946579e-05 |
| 719 | GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration | 1982 | VLDB | 0.0001754485 |