Everything about Data Access Language

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Data Access LanguageA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Transforming Medical Data Access: The Role and Challenges of Recent Language Models in SQL Query AutomationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Introducing ComputersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The effectiveness of stemming for natural-language access to Slovene textual dataCited 66 times
5. Go sideways: Data Access ManagerA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Butler SQLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The effectiveness of stemming for natural-language access to Slovene textual data

  Mirko Popovič, Peter Willett · 1992 · Journal of the American Society for Information Science · 66 citations

• A language extension for expressing constraints on data access

  Anita K. Jones, Barbara H. Liskov · 1978 · Communications of the ACM · 49 citations

• A Language Extension for Controlling Access to Shared Data

  A.K. Jones, B.H. Liskov · 1976 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 36 citations

• An Access Specification Language for a Relational Data Base System

  Raymond A. Lorie, Jorgen F. Nilsson · 1979 · IBM Journal of Research and Development · 16 citations

• Agricultural chemicals use data access using coldfusion markup language and a relational database

  Yulu Xia, R.E. Stinner, Daryl Brinkman · 2003 · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture · 8 citations

• Inferring depictions in natural-language captions for efficient access to picture data

  Neil C. Rowe · 1994 · Information Processing & Management · 7 citations

• Agentic RAG for Maritime AIoT: Natural Language Access to Structured Data

  Oxana Sachenkova, Melker Andreasson, Dongzhu Tan · 2026 · Sensors · 4 citations

• Natural Language Access to Enterprise Data

  Ulli Waltinger, Dan Tecuci, Mihaela Olteanu · 2014 · AI Magazine · 3 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Transforming Medical Data Access: The Role and Challenges of Recent Language Models in SQL Query Automation

  Nikola Tanković, Robert Šajina, Ivan Lorencin · 2025 · Algorithms · 4 citations

• Democratizing cloud data lake analytics: natural language access to Apache Iceberg via LLM agents

  Vipin Kataria, Nitin Kumar · 2026 · Frontiers in Big Data · 1 citations

• PLM4NDV: Minimizing Data Access for Number of Distinct Values Estimation with Pre-trained Language Models

  Xianghong Xu, Xiao He, Tieying Zhang · 2025 · Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data · 1 citations

• BUILDING PHYSICAL DATA ACCESS PLANS USING LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS

  Mykola Khoroshevskyi · 2023 · International electronic scientific journal “Science Online” · 0 citations

• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Natural-Language Access to Enterprise Operational Data

  Ashwin Krishnappa Kumar · 2026 · International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Introducing ComputersRobert H. Blissmer · 1988
• Learning to use Windows applicationsGary B. Shelly · 1994
• IBM PC ApprenticeInc. Wordware Pub., Leonard Paul Kubiak · 1984
• 📕Access and Control in Digital HumanitiesShane Hawkins · 2021
• Tackling Computer Projects in Access with Visual BasicP.M. Heathcote · 1997
• Access 2003 power programming with VBAAllen G. Taylor, Virginia Andersen · 2003
• Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and DefensesDavide Balzarotti · 2012
• Official Netscape Navigator 3.0 bookPhil James, John Trebnik · 1996

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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