Electronic newsgroups are one of the primary means for the dissemination, exchange and sharing of information. We argue that the current newsgroup model is unsatisfactory, especial...
Computing multiple related group-bys and aggregates is one of the core operations of On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications. Recently, Gray et al. [GBLP95] proposed the...
Yihong Zhao, Prasad Deshpande, Jeffrey F. Naughton
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...
To add time su port to the relational model, both first normal form (fNF and non-INF appmches have maining within 1NF when time support is added may introduce data redundancy. The...
Christian S. Jensen, Michael D. Soo, Richard T. Sn...
A new type of optimization, called predicate move-around, ia introduced. It is shown how this optimization `considerably improvea the efficiency of evaluating SQL queries that hav...
Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagi...