During the few last years, several approaches have been proposed to model different aspects of a Data Warehouse (DW), such as the conceptual model of the DW, the design of the ET...
The design of very small databases for smart cards and for portable embedded systems is deeply constrained by the peculiar features of the physical medium. Privacy concerns are re...
In this paper we discuss advances in self-tuning database systems over the past decade, based on our experience in the AutoAdmin project at Microsoft Research. This paper primaril...
Due to the popularity of electronic commerce and the maturity of wireless technology, mobile users can access the Internet anytime anywhere without having to physically hook up an...
Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) is a physical database design tool that is part of Microsoft’s SQL Server 2005 relational database management system. Previously known as “Index ...