QBI: Query By Icons
Summary: QBI provides a pure iconic query interface for large distributed databases—no diagrams, only icon manipulation. Intensional browsing and metquery tools auto‑generate path expressions as a single icon, enabling complete queries without schema knowledge or data access, domain independent. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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