A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...
A Data Warehouse (DW) can be used to integrate data from multiple distributed data sources. A DW can be seen as a set of materialized views that determine its schema and its conten...
Abstract— Checking if an SQL query has been written correctly is not an easy task. Formal verification is not applicable, since it is based on comparing a specification with an...
We demonstrate MMS, a system for storing and managing a variety of metadata in a simple, elegant and uniform way. The system is based on two observations. First, that the relation...
Schema mappings are high-level specifications that describe the relationship between two database schemas. They are an important tool in several areas of database research, notab...