A Cognitive Analysis of Database Query Production

1 September 1986

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting

Vol. 30 (1) , 9-13
https://doi.org/10.1177/154193128603000103

Abstract

Two distinctly different methods of expressing database queries were compared to evaluate differences in their difficulty. One method was a standard database query language, SQL, while the second method only required subjects to be able to make use of tables representing sample databases. Clear differences emerged in subject performance. Regression techniques demonstrated an association between performance and a set of cognitive skills.

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