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Schema-free SQL

Summary: Introduce Schema-free SQL, a RDB query language enabling partial schema, tolerating unknown relation/attr names and missing join paths. A translator converts Schema-free SQL to full SQL; schema info yields results as if fully specified. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
4777
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
4.9485222e-05
Overall Rank
6,711 | 53.36%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2588571

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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
53 DISCOVER: Keyword Search in Relational Databases 2002 VLDB 0.00065993143
257 Making Database Systems Usable 2007 SIGMOD 0.00030237174
547 Schema-Free XQuery 2004 VLDB 0.00020372992
1,153 SQAK: Doing More with Keywords 2008 SIGMOD 0.00013633055
4,046 Querying Complex Structured Databases 2007 VLDB 6.5021302e-05
4,593 Keyword Search on Relational Data Streams 2007 SIGMOD 6.0559961e-05
5,427 Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases 2009 SIGMOD 5.5126383e-05
7,616 Qunits: queried units for database search 2009 CIDR 4.6901111e-05
7,645 CourseRank: A Social System for Course Planning 2009 SIGMOD 4.6847503e-05
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