A relation is an unordered collection of records. Often, however, there is an underlying order (e.g., a sequence of stock prices), and users want to pose queries that reflect this...
One of the most ubiquitous elements of modern computing is the relational database. Very few modern applications are created without some sort of database backend. Unfortunately, r...
Due to an increasing volume of XML data, it is considered prudent to store XML data on an industry-strength database system instead of relying on a domain specific application or...
We describe set-oriented algorithms for mining association rules. Such algorithms imply performing multiple joins and may appear to be inherently less escient than special-purpose...
We show how to efficiently evaluate generic map-filter-product queries, generalizations of select-project-join (SPJ) queries in relational algebra, based on a combination of two...