An increasing percentage of the data needed by business applications is being generated in XML format. Storing the XML in its native format will facilitate new applications that e...
Alan Halverson, Vanja Josifovski, Guy M. Lohman, H...
Random sampling is a popular technique for providing fast approximate query answers, especially in data warehouse environments. Compared to other types of synopses, random sampling...
With the growing importance of XML in data exchange, much research has been done in providing flexible query facilities to extract data from structured XML documents. In this pape...
The view selection problem is to choose a set of views to materialize over a database schema, such that the cost of evaluating a set of workload queries is minimized and such that ...
— Many applications require sorting a table over multiple sort orders: generation of multiple reports from a table, evaluation of a complex query that involves multiple instances...