Speculation is an every day phenomenon whereby one acts in anticipation of particular conditions that are likely to hold in the future. Computer science research has seen many suc...
Schema evolution poses serious challenges in historical data management. Traditionally historical data have been archived either by (i) migrating them into the current schema vers...
Hyun J. Moon, Carlo Curino, MyungWon Ham, Carlo Za...
The XML Wrapper is a new feature of the federated database capabilities of DB2/UDB v8. It enables users and applications to issue SQL queries against XML data from a variety of so...
Spatial joins are one of the most important operations for combining spatial objects of several relations. In this paper, spatial join processing is studied in detail for extended...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneid...
—We demonstrate SWITCH, a deep embedding of relational queries into RUBY and RUBY on RAILS. With SWITCH, there is no syntactic or stylistic difference between RUBY programs that ...