Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Query By Example
     
         (QBE) A {user-friendly} {query language}
        developed by Moshe Zloof of {IBM} in 1975.
     
       
     {(http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/z/Zloof:Mosh=eacute=_M=.html)}.
     
        [Moshe M. Zloof, "Query By Example", AFIPS NCC 1975: 431-438].
     
        [Moshe M. Zloof, "Query-by-Example: A Data Base Language", IBM
        Systems Journal 16(4): 324-343, 1977].
     
        ["QBE/OBE: A Language for Office and Business Automation",
        M.M. Zloof, Computer pp.13-22, May 1981].
     
        (2001-03-25)