The rapid adoption of XML as the standard for data representation and exchange foreshadows a massive increase in the amounts of XML data collected, maintained, and queried over th...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
Existing SQL aggregate functions present important limitations to compute percentages. This article proposes two SQL aggregate functions to compute percentages addressing such lim...
We introduce a hierarchical labeling scheme called ORDPATH that is implemented in the upcoming version of Microsoft? SQL ServerTM. ORDPATH labels nodes of an XML tree without requ...
Patrick E. O'Neil, Elizabeth J. O'Neil, Shankar Pa...
Mining informative patterns from very large, dynamically changing databases poses numerous interesting challenges. Data summarizations (e.g., data bubbles) have been proposed to c...
This paper introduces the Scalable INcremental hash-based Algorithm (SINA, for short); a new algorithm for evaluating a set of concurrent continuous spatio-temporal queries. SINA ...
We perform a theoretical study of the following queryview security problem: given a view V to be published, does V logically disclose information about a confidential query S? The...
In traditional database security research, the database is usually assumed to be trustworthy. Under this assumption, the goal is to achieve security against external attacks (e.g....
Virtually every commercial query optimizer chooses the best plan for a query using a cost model that relies heavily on accurate cardinality estimation. Cardinality estimation erro...
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen,...
Many modern software systems provide progress indicators for long-running tasks. These progress indicators make systems more user-friendly by helping the user quickly estimate how...
Gang Luo, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Curt J. Ellmann, Mi...