Query By Excel
Summary: QBX lets analysts author computations in familiar Excel, then automatically translates and persists them as SQL views over relational data. This bridges spreadsheet interactivity with database sharing, centralized management, and scalable execution. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Andrew Witkowski (Oracle)
- 2. Srikanth Bellamkonda (Oracle)
- 3. Tolga Bozkaya (Oracle)
- 4. Aman Naimat (Oracle)
- 5. Lei Sheng (Oracle)
- 6. Sankar Subramanian (Oracle)
- 7. Allison Waingold (Oracle)
BibTeX Citation
@article{witkowski_vldb05,
title = {{Query By Excel}},
author = {Witkowski, Andrew and Bellamkonda, Srikanth and Bozkaya, Tolga and Naimat, Aman and Sheng, Lei and Subramanian, Sankar and Waingold, Allison},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '05},
pages = {1204--1215},
year = {2005}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,249 | Spreadsheet As a Relational Database Engine | 2010 | SIGMOD | 7.5977673e-05 |
| 6,395 | DataSpread: Unifying Databases and Spreadsheets | 2015 | VLDB | 5.8876003e-05 |
| 11,853 | Anti-Freeze for Large and Complex Spreadsheets: Asynchronous Formula Computation | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 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 |
| 1,691 | PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS | 2004 | VLDB | 9.9999141e-05 |
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