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QUEL was the query language used in the original Ingres system from Berkeley University.
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QUEL was one of the first relational database query languages. It can be seen as a syntactically sugared tuple relational calculus language. The Postgres extension of Ingres originally used an extention of QUEL called PostQUEL, but was later replaced with SQL.
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Risch, T. (2009). QUEL. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1104
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