Expressive Query Construction through Direct Manipulation of Nested Relational Results

Summary: First visual query system: direct manipulation of nested results; view/modify any query part; SQL-like expressiveness. Spreadsheet idioms enable full relational operators; processing stays in the DB; studies show usability gains vs Access. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5238
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 6.2482689e-05
Overall Rank: 4,361 | 69.70%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2915210

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Eirik Bakke
2. David R. Karger

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,057	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.2275892e-05
6,295	Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it	2020	CIDR	5.1200006e-05
8,175	NOAH: Interactive Spreadsheet Exploration with Dynamic Hierarchical Overviews	2021	VLDB	4.5638044e-05
8,400	On The Reasonable Effectiveness of Relational Diagrams: Explaining Relational Query Patterns and the Pattern Expressiveness of Relational Languages	2024	SIGMOD	4.5180771e-05
10,133	A Principled Solution to the Disjunction Problem of Diagrammatic Query Representations	2026	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
11,273	A Tutorial on Visual Representations of Relational Queries	2023	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
11,696	Enabling Data Science for the Majority	2019	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
93	Remarks on the Algebra of Non First Normal Form Relations	1982	PODS	0.00051290296
257	Making Database Systems Usable	2007	SIGMOD	0.00030237174
1,258	Ordering the Attributes of Query Results	2006	SIGMOD	0.00013001902
1,941	QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010018268
1,996	Probabilistic Ranking of Database Query Results	2004	VLDB	9.8374939e-05
2,096	Automated Creation of a Forms-based Database Query Interface	2008	VLDB	9.544914e-05
2,661	Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine	2010	SIGMOD	8.3582084e-05
2,716	WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications	2008	VLDB	8.2381491e-05
3,192	Gestural Query Specification	2014	VLDB	7.4085087e-05
5,456	Do-It-Yourself Database-Driven Web Applications	2009	CIDR	5.4962288e-05
6,819	Skimmer: Rapid Scrolling of Relational Query Results	2012	SIGMOD	4.9105991e-05
8,774	CRIUS: User-Friendly Database Design	2011	VLDB	4.4502549e-05
12,171	The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions	2011	CIDR	4.1905499e-05

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12,171	The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions	2011	CIDR	4.1905499e-05
5,459	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	5.4946579e-05
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