Re: SQL generator

> > 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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