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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
9256
Venue
VLDB
Year
2005
Pagerank
6.4867352e-05
Overall Rank
4,059 | 71.80%
DOI
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2,661 Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine 2010 SIGMOD 8.3582084e-05
6,503 DataSpread: Unifying Databases and Spreadsheets 2015 VLDB 5.0286698e-05
11,663 Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation 2019 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-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
1,205 PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS 2004 VLDB 0.00013309393
1,547 Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP 2003 SIGMOD 0.00011417795
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