This paper describes an ongoing effort to provide a complete, integrated, interactive graphical database interface that enables users to do real work. The facilities provided include:
- Schema specification
- Schema modiication
- Database browsing
- Query
The interface to all these facilities is centered around a graphical display of the datahase schema. The ideas described in this paper have been very influential and have found their way into several projects, prototypes and products.
By: Ashok Malhotra, Luanne M. Burns, Gary H. Sockut
Published in: RC16943 in 1991
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