Abstract
Data Query Languages were developed in the early seventies when the man-machine interface was, by today’s standards, limited and rudimentary. In particular, interaction with the computer was through the processing of batched jobs, where jobs (computation requests such as “run this program on that data”, “evaluate this database query”, etc) were prepared off-line on some computer readable media (eg. punch cards), gathered into a ‘batch’ and then submitted for processing. No interaction takes place between the user and computer while the jobs were processed. End results were instead typically printed for the user to inspect (again off-line) and to determine the next course of action. The batch cycle continued until the user had obtained the desired results.
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Maurer, H., Scherbakov, N., Halim, Z., Razak, Z. (1998). Query-By-Example (QBE). In: From Databases to Hypermedia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58763-4_10
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