We investigate the problem of using materialized views to answer SQL queries. We focus on modern decision-support queries, which involve joins, arithmetic operations and other (po...
Markos Zaharioudakis, Roberta Cochrane, George Lap...
Complex queries often contain common or similar subexpressions, either within a single query or among multiple queries submitted as a batch. If so, query execution time can be imp...
Jingren Zhou, Johann Christoph Freytag, Per-Å...
The paper presents an unified Description Logic (DL) model for databases. Describing database models using DLs is a fundamental problem in many areas because it turns databases to...
Query optimizers in current database management systems (DBMS) often face problems such as intolerably long optimization time and/or poor optimization results when optimizing compl...
In this paper, we present the ArchIS system that achieves full-functionality transaction-time databases without requiring temporal extensions in XML or database standards. ArchIS&...