Statistics play a key role in influencing the quality of plans chosen by a database query optimizer. In this paper, we identify the statistics that are essential for an optimizer....
With the increasing amount of text data stored in relational databases, there is a demand for RDBMS to support keyword queries over text data. As a search result is often assemble...
We study the problem of answering queries through a target schema, given a set of mappings between one or more source schemas and this target schema, and given that the data is at...
Query rewriting is a fundamental task in query optimization and data integration. With the advent of the web, there has been renewed interest in data integration, where data is dis...
Xia Yang, Mong-Li Lee, Tok Wang Ling, Gillian Dobb...
Business Intelligence (BI) applications allow their users to query, understand, and analyze existing data within their organizations in order to acquire useful knowledge, thus mak...