A “plan diagram” is a pictorial enumeration of the execution plan choices of a database query optimizer over the relational selectivity space. In this paper, we present and an...
Conditional functional dependencies (CFDs) have recently been proposed as extensions of classical functional dependencies that apply to a certain subset of the relation, as specif...
Graham Cormode, Lukasz Golab, Flip Korn, Andrew Mc...
We are developing an object-oriented real-time database system that includes a relationally complete query language. Unlike conventional query optimizers, our optimizer estimates ...