Recently several important relational database tasks such as index selection, histogram tuning, approximate query processing, and statistics selection have recognized the importan...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Vivek R. Na...
The Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) that is part of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is an automated physical database design tool that significantly advances the state-of-the-art in sever...
Tuning database system configuration parameters to proper values according to the expected query workload plays a very important role in determining DBMS performance. However, the ...
Biplob K. Debnath, Mohamed F. Mokbel, David J. Lil...
The paper presents a novel method for compressing large database workloads for purpose of autonomic, continuous index selection. The compressed workload contains a small subset of ...
Microsoft SQL Server was successful for many years for transaction processing and decision support workloads with neither merge join nor hash join, relying entirely on nested loop...