Commercial database systems expose query hints to fix poor plans produced by the query optimizer. However, current query hints are not flexible enough to deal with a variety of no...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...
Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
George Papastefanatos, Fotini Anagnostou, Yannis V...
One of the most challenging aspects of managing a very large data warehouse is identifying how queries will behave before they start executing. Yet knowing their performance charac...
Archana Ganapathi, Harumi A. Kuno, Umeshwar Dayal,...
Abstract. We aim to demonstrate that automated deduction techniques, in particular those following the model computation paradigm, are very well suited for database schema/query re...
Peter Baumgartner, Ulrich Furbach, Margret Gro&szl...
Semistructured graph-based databases have been proposed as well-suited stores for World-Wide Web data. Yet so far, languages for querying such data are too complex for casual Web ...