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DAGSTUHL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
A Practical Approach to Hypothetical Database Queries
Hypothetical queries are queries embedding hypotheses about the database. The embedded hypothesis in a hypothetical query indicates, so to say, a state of the database intended for...
Henning Christiansen, Troels Andreasen
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
WSQ/DSQ: A Practical Approach for Combined Querying of Databases and the Web
We present WSQ/DSQ (pronounced “wisk-disk”), a new approach for combining the query facilities of traditional databases with existing search engines on the Web. WSQ, for Web-S...
Roy Goldman, Jennifer Widom
SIGMOD
2005
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach
Research on query optimization has focused almost exclusively on reducing query execution time, while important qualities such as consistency and predictability have largely been ...
Brian Babcock, Surajit Chaudhuri
CAISE
1999
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Practical Approach to Access Heterogeneous and Distributed Databases
A common problem within most large corporations nowadays is the diversity of database systems that are employed by their many departments in the development of a product. Usually, ...
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Ulrich Hermsen, Geor...
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
Understanding Web Query Interfaces: Best-Effort Parsing with Hidden Syntax
Recently, the Web has been rapidly "deepened" by many searchable databases online, where data are hidden behind query forms. For modelling and integrating Web databases,...
Zhen Zhang, Bin He, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang