query language
noun[C]
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a way of gettingparticularinformationthat youwantfrom alargeamountofinformationheldon acomputerdatabase,spreadsheet, etc.:
HRmanagersneed to beableto use adatabasequerylanguageto makegraphsandcalculationsfromstaffdata.
Examplesofquery language
query language
All these tasks can be formulated as queries in an object-orientedquerylanguagenamed.
From
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is often used as aquerylanguagefor deductive databases.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Such databases offer aquerylanguagethat allows the user to retrieve documents based on their content.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the first graphicalquerylanguage, using visual tables where the user would enter commands, example elements and conditions.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It can be queried using aquerylanguageand is used as a backend.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Much like a relational database, one stores information in a triplestore and retrieves it via aquerylanguage.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thequerylanguageis declarative (and, hence, optimizable) and safe in evaluation - that is: every query is guaranteed to return after a finite number of processing steps.
FromThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Object identity as aquerylanguageprimitive.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This typically requires the addition of some kind ofquerylanguage, since conventional programming languages do not have the ability to find objects based on their information content.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The matching algorithms will thus have to make use of semanticquerylanguage-like constructs.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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- silver medallion
- silver mine
- silver mining
- silver nitrate
- silver-nitrate
- silver object
- silver ore
- silver ore
- silver ornaments
- silver ornaments
- silver paper
- silver-paper
- silver plate
- silver-plate
- silver-plated
- silver-plated
- silver print
- silver ring
- silver-screen
- silverside
- silversmith
- silver spoon
- silver spoon
- sleeve-board
- -sleeved