One of the goals of cleaning an inconsistent database is to remove conflicts between tuples. Typically, the user specifies how the conflicts should be resolved. Sometimes this spec...
Slawomir Staworko, Jan Chomicki, Jerzy Marcinkowsk...
Relational query optimizers have traditionally relied upon table cardinalities when estimating the cost of the query plans they consider. While this approach has been and continue...
Modern query optimizers select an efficient join ordering for a physical execution plan based essentially on the average join selectivity factors among the referenced tables. In ...
Order is essential for XML query processing. Efficient XML processing with order consideration over relational storage is non-trivial, especially for complex nested XQuery expressi...
XML data projection (or pruning) is one of the main optimization techniques recently adopted in the context of main-memory XML query-engines. The underlying idea is quite simple: ...