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...
The problem of nding the best answers to a query quickly, rather than nding all answers, is of increasing importance as relational databases are applied in multimedia and decision...
The need to search for complex and recurring patterns in database sequences is shared by many applications. In this paper, we discuss how to express and support efficiently sophis...
Reza Sadri, Carlo Zaniolo, Amir M. Zarkesh, Jafar ...
Abstract: We propose a framework for the specification of extensible database systems. A particular goal is to implement a software component for parsing and rule-based optimizatio...
We present a pragmatic extension of a Semantic Web query language (including so-called grounded conjunctive queries) with a termination safe functional expression language. This ad...