TWO DIMENSIONAL TABLE QUERY LANGUAGE IN CHINESE——AN ADMINISTRATORS ORIENTED RELATIONAL DATABASE LANGUAGE
Fang Ning · Computer Applications and Software · 1989
What man-machine interface to be used as an interaction method betweenadministrators and computers is an important issue of designing computer-aidedmanagement system.Administrators are not professional computer users,therefordthe interface must accord with their customs and psychology.Tables are natural andefficient interfaces between administrators and data.This paper describes an administrators oriented relational database language inChinese.It provides a Database Definition Language(DDL)and Database ManipulationLanguage(DML)and some other functions such as Print,Sort and Statisties.It is apowerful and simple non-procedural language with some characteristics of the 4thgeneration language.