Statistics play an important role in influencing the plans produced by a query optimizer. Traditionally, optimizers use statistics built over base tables and assume independence b...
In data integration systems, queries posed to a mediator need to be translated into a sequence of queries to the underlying data sources. In a heterogeneous environment, with sour...
Ramana Yerneni, Chen Li, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Hector...
The area of automatic selection of physical database design to optimize the performance of a relational database system based on a workload of SQL queries and updates has gained p...
The use of relational database management systems (RDBMSs) to store and query XML data has attracted considerable interest with a view to leveraging their powerful and reliable da...