: A recent article introduced partitioned B-trees, in which partitions are defined not in the catalogs but by distinct values in an artificial leading key column. As there usually ...
: Due to the ever increasing impacts of globalization, people will/have to work on data which is distributed all around the world [LKK+ 97]. Query processing on the corresponding d...
Abstract: Query languages for XML such as XPath or XQuery support Boolean retrieval where a query result is a (possibly restructured) subset of XML elements or entire documents tha...
: We propose a multidimensional approach to store XML data in relational database systems. In contrast to other efforts we suggest a solution to the problem using established datab...
Microarrays make it possible to monitor the expression of thousands of genes in parallel thus generating huge amounts of data. So far, several databases have been developed for man...