For transferring data between heterogeneous databases, XML is becoming a method of choice. While deployment is generally successfully, there are barriers to overcome. A recent exa...
The storage manager of a general-purpose database system can retain consistent disk page level snapshots and run application programs "back-in-time" against long-lived p...
We describe our participation in Multilingual Question Answering at CLEF 2008 using German and English as our source and target languages respectively. The system was built using ...
Nowadays, structured data such as sales and business forms are stored in data warehouses for decision makers to use. Further, unstructured data such as emails, html texts, images,...
Most people consider a database is merely a data repository that supports data storage and retrieval. Actually, a database contains rich, inter-related, multi-typed data and infor...