A high-level user front-end for the experimental relational database system MEMODAX is described it is based on the universal relation model, and it allows quering and updating a database without any knowledge of its conceptual structure we survey the main features of USIL the universal Schema interface language for MEMODAX and show how to retrieve data from a database without logical access path specifications we additionally demonstrate how to update the database when the user is aware of attributes only we give a description of the syntax and part of the semantics of USIL indicating that this language is getting close to a natural language interface.