A method for describing a database query originally developed by IBM for mainframes. A replica of an empty record is displayed and the search conditions are typed in under their respective columns ...
A query expressed by typing English, French or any other spoken language in a normal manner. For example, "how many sales reps sold more than a million dollars in any eastern state in January?" ...
For example: Searching for customers who are female ... We can then create a query (showing these two fields plus the additional calculated field Total) which multiplies the two together.