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Soon every desk will have a computer on it. Software to do mundane things such as payroll, mail, and text processing exists and as a by-product produces vast quantities of one-line information. Many users want to manipulate this data, often in unanticipated ways. These unexpected uses cannot justify substantial programming costs. This paper argues that the relational data model and operators combined with a screen-oriented forms design and display system answers many of the needs of such users. In such a system, all data are represented in terms of records and fields. The user defines the screens (forms) he wants to see, and then specifies the mapping between fields of these screens and fields of the database records in terms of predicates and relational operators.
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Gray, J. (1983). An Approach to End-Users Application Design. In: Holsapple, C.W., Whinston, A.B. (eds) Data Base Management: Theory and Applications. Nato Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 98. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7029-8_5
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