Business Modeling Using SQL Spreadsheets

Summary: Introduces SQL Spreadsheet, a relationally rigorous SQL extension that directly expresses array- and spreadsheet-style business models, avoiding join/UNION/window-function emulation. Demonstrates easier programming, parallel scalability, performance gains, and novel query optimizations over standard SQL. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9262
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 5.7267832e-05
Overall Rank: 7,008 | 51.92%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50119-1

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Andrew Witkowski (Oracle)
2. Srikanth Bellamkonda (Oracle)
3. Tolga Bozkaya (Oracle)
4. Nathan Folkert (Oracle)
5. Abhinav Gupta (Oracle)
6. Lei Sheng (Oracle)
7. Sankar Subramanian (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@article{witkowski_vldb03,
        title = {{Business Modeling Using SQL Spreadsheets}},
        author = {Witkowski, Andrew and Bellamkonda, Srikanth and Bozkaya, Tolga and Folkert, Nathan and Gupta, Abhinav and Sheng, Lei and Subramanian, Sankar},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50119-1},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50119-1},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,249	Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine	2010	SIGMOD	7.5977673e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,687	Spreadsheets in RDBMS for OLAP	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010005718

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