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SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
Herodotos Herodotou, Shivnath Babu
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 8 months ago
Dictionary-based order-preserving string compression for main memory column stores
Column-oriented database systems [19, 23] perform better than traditional row-oriented database systems on analytical workloads such as those found in decision support and busines...
Carsten Binnig, Stefan Hildenbrand, Franz Fär...
CIKM
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation by comparing result sets in context
Familiar evaluation methodologies for information retrieval (IR) are not well suited to the task of comparing systems in many real settings. These systems and evaluation methods m...
Paul Thomas, David Hawking
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
University of Alicante at WiQA 2006
This paper presents the participation of University of Alicante at the WiQA pilot task organized as part of the CLEF 2006 campaign. For a given set of topics, this task presuppose...
Antonio Toral Ruiz, Georgiana Puscasu, Lorenza Mor...
GIS
2005
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Adaptive nearest neighbor queries in travel time networks
Nearest neighbor (NN) searches represent an important class of queries in geographic information systems (GIS). Most nearest neighbor algorithms rely on static distance informatio...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Haojun Wang, Chi-N...