An interface for novice and infrequent database management system users
James A. Larson, Jennifer B. Wallick · AFIPS conference proceedings · 1984
Special interfaces are needed for novice and infrequent users of database management systems. Such interfaces must remind users of the structure and names of database objects as they guide users in formulating syntactically valid database commands. A prototype system developed at the Honeywell Corporate Technology Center provides such an interface by integrating schema displays depicting the contents and structure of the database and syntax diagrams representing the valid syntactic options of a database query language. By traversing these graphs, novice and infrequent database management system users can easily formulate syntactically valid database management system commands while learning the formal syntax of the database management system command language.