Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...
One of the critical deficiencies of SQL is lack of support for ndimensional array-based computations which are frequent in OLAP environments. Relational OLAP (ROLAP) applications ...
Andrew Witkowski, Srikanth Bellamkonda, Tolga Bozk...
The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
In this paper, we explore the possibility of transforming queries with minimum and maximum predicates into equivalent queries that can be computed more efficiently. The main contr...
Abstract. Research on processing XML documents gained much activity in recent times. XML query languages are mostly based on XPath expressions, which are used to select parts of XM...