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query by example

See QBE.


query by example [′kwir·ē bī ig′zam·pəl]
(computer science)
A software product used to search a data base for information having formats or ranges of values specified by English-like statements that indicate the desired results. Abbreviated QBE.

(database, language)Query By Example - (QBE) A user-friendly query language developed by Moshé Zloof of IBM in 1975.

http://informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/z/Zloof:Mosh=eacute=_M=.html.

[Moshé M. Zloof, "Query By Example", AFIPS NCC 1975: 431-438].

[Moshé M. Zloof, "Query-by-Example: A Data Base Language", IBM Systems Journal 16(4): 324-343, 1977].

["QBE/OBE: A Language for Office and Business Automation", M.M. Zloof, Computer pp.13-22, May 1981].


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