Query By Example

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Query By Example
QBE

   <database, language> (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].

   (2001-03-25)