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From: Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Hammond <andrew.george.hammond@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: SQL generator
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:00:42 -0400
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> > A typical query then may look like this:
> >
> > Select all 'toys' from 'Walmart' where average_sales(100) > 100000 and
> > avaerage_cost(100,10) <= 1 and item_date between "01-Jan-00" and
> > "01-Jan-06"

See Microsoft's English Query for SQL Server or the SQ-HAL project for examples:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/reskit/part9/c3261.mspx?mfr=true

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/hons/projects/2000/Supun.Ruwanpura/

In general, it's easier to write the SQL than to optimize natural
language-based query translation.

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Jonah H. Harris, Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1300
EnterpriseDB Corporation            | fax: 732.331.1301
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