We consider a near future scenario in which users of a Web 2.0 application, such as a social network, contribute to the application not only data, but also rules which automatical...
Time-referenced data are pervasive in most real-world databases. Recent advances in temporal query languages show that such database applications may benefit substantially from bu...
Giedrius Slivinskas, Christian S. Jensen, Richard ...
Abstract. Many SQL queries with aggregated subqueries exhibit redundancy (overlap in FROM and WHERE clauses). We propose a method, called the for-loop, to optimize such queries by ...
Statistics play a key role in influencing the quality of plans chosen by a database query optimizer. In this paper, we identify the statistics that are essential for an optimizer....
Abstract. Current peer-to-peer (p2p) systems place the burden of application-level query execution on the application developer. Not only do application developers lack the experti...