Sorting is a memory intensive operation whose performance is greatly affected by the amount of memory available as work space. When the input size is unknown or available memory s...
Most people store ‘bookmarks’ to web pages. These allow the user to return to a web page later on, without having to remember the exact URL address. People attempt to organise ...
Partitioning within a B-tree, based on an artificial leading key column and combined with online reorganization, can be exploited during external merge sort for accurate deep read...
At a parcel delivery company, the items being shipped must be sorted by destination. However, the company typically serves more destinations than there are distinct positions for ...
Nested iteration is an important technique for query evaluation. It is the default way of executing nested subqueries in SQL. Although decorrelation often results in cheaper non-n...
Ravindra Guravannavar, H. S. Ramanujam, S. Sudarsh...