Qr-Hint: Actionable Hints Towards Correcting Wrong SQL Queries

Summary: Qr-Hint generates actionable repair hints for a wrong SQL query relative to a target query, aiming at semantics-preserving fixes rather than mimicking the target syntax. Key novelty: stepwise, provably correct and locally optimal guidance from the user’s own query, despite SQL equivalence undecidability. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on May 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7017
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.3599176e-05
Overall Rank: 8,834 | 39.40%
DOI: 10.1145/3654995

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Authors

1. Yihao Hu (Duke University)
2. Amir Gilad (Hebrew University)
3. Kristin Stephens-Martinez (Duke University)
4. Sudeepa Roy (Duke University)
5. Jun Yang (Duke University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hu_sigmod24,
        title = {{Qr-Hint: Actionable Hints Towards Correcting Wrong SQL Queries}},
        author = {Hu, Yihao and Gilad, Amir and Stephens-Martinez, Kristin and Roy, Sudeepa and Yang, Jun},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3654995},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654995},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,305	The Power of Constraints in Natural Language to SQL Translation	2025	VLDB	5.289545e-05
10,301	Towards Selecting Informative Alternative Relational Query Plans for Database Education	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
445	Apache Calcite: A Foundational Framework for Optimized Query Processing Over Heterogeneous Data Sources	2018	SIGMOD	0.00018336751
910	Cosette: An Automated Prover for SQL	2017	CIDR	0.00013285905
1,269	The Containment Problem for Real Conjunctive Queries with Inequalities	2006	PODS	0.000113935
1,829	Axiomatic Foundations and Algorithms for Deciding Semantic Equivalences of SQL Queries	2018	VLDB	9.6671311e-05
3,327	Automated Verification of Query Equivalence Using Satisfiability Modulo Theories	2019	VLDB	7.518491e-05
3,769	Proving Query Equivalence Using Linear Integer Arithmetic	2023	SIGMOD	7.1403543e-05
4,721	QueryVis: Logic-based Diagrams help Users Understand Complicated SQL Queries Faster	2020	SIGMOD	6.5444379e-05
4,759	Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples	2019	SIGMOD	6.5207388e-05
4,961	A SQL Debugger Built from Spare Parts: Turning a SQL:1999 Database System into Its Own Debugger	2015	SIGMOD	6.4276648e-05
6,542	Determinacy of Real Conjunctive Queries. The Boolean Case	2022	PODS	5.8466322e-05
8,970	Understanding Queries by Conditional Instances	2022	SIGMOD	5.3422757e-05

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