— To cope with bursty arrivals of high-volume data, a DSMS has to shed load while minimizing the degradation of Quality of Service (QoS). In this paper, we show that this problem...
The growing nature of databases, and the flexibility inherent in the SQL query language that allows arbitrarily complex formulations, can result in queries that take inordinate am...
With mobile computing and powerful laptops, databases with sensitive data can be physically retrieved by malicious users who can employ techniques that were not previously thought...
Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
Functional testing of a query language is a challenging task in practice. In order to reveal errors in the query processing functionality, it is necessary to verify the actual res...
Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo, Angel Sa...