A rich set of concepts and techniques has been developed in the context of query processing for the efficient and robust execution of queries. So far, this work has mostly focused...
: Database-internal statistics are very important for cost-based query optimizers. Only if an optimizer has accurate statistical information about data, it provides excellent execu...
— In recent years, the research community introduced various methods for processing skyline queries in multidimensional databases. The skyline operator retrieves all objects bein...
Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...
It has been well recognized that data mining is an interactive and iterative process. In order to support this process, one of the long-term goals of data mining research has been...