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Query By Excel

Summary: Translates Excel computations into SQL views for shareable, scalable analysis. QBX imports data, encodes Excel formulas as SQL, and runs via the RDBMS, with round-trip edits to Excel stored as SQL views. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
9255
Venue
VLDB
Year
2005
Pagerank
6.4929934e-05
Overall Rank
4,053 | 71.81%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,652 Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine 2010 SIGMOD 8.3662745e-05
6,508 DataSpread: Unifying Databases and Spreadsheets 2015 VLDB 5.0335028e-05
11,658 Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation 2019 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
1,203 PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS 2004 VLDB 0.00013320373
1,549 Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP 2003 SIGMOD 0.00011428835
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