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ICDT
2005
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
First-Order Query Rewriting for Inconsistent Databases
We consider the problem of retrieving consistent answers over databases that might be inconsistent with respect to some given integrity constraints. In particular, we concentrate o...
Ariel Fuxman, Renée J. Miller
PODS
2003
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Materializing views with minimal size to answer queries
In this paper we study the following problem. Given a database and a set of queries, we want to find, in advance, a set of views that can compute the answers to the queries, such ...
Rada Chirkova, Chen Li
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 8 months ago
A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
Frederick Reiss, Tapas Kanungo
ICDE
2010
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
Approximate String Search in Spatial Databases
Abstract-- This work presents a novel index structure, MHRtree, for efficiently answering approximate string match queries in large spatial databases. The MHR-tree is based on the ...
Bin Yao, Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Kun H...
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 8 months ago
Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models
Estimating the result size of complex queries that involve selection on multiple attributes and the join of several relations is a difficult but fundamental task in database query...
Lise Getoor, Benjamin Taskar, Daphne Koller