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CORR
2004
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
The semijoin algebra and the guarded fragment
In the 1970s Codd introduced the relational algebra, with operators selection, projection, union, difference and product, and showed that it is equivalent to first-order logic. In ...
Dirk Leinders, Jerzy Tyszkiewicz, Jan Van den Buss...
PODS
2005
ACM
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14 years 5 months ago
On the complexity of division and set joins in the relational algebra
We show that any expression of the relational division operator in the relational algebra with union, difference, projection, selection, constant-tagging, and joins, must produce ...
Dirk Leinders, Jan Van den Bussche
FOIKS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
The Semijoin Algebra
Jan Van den Bussche
ICDT
2007
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Database Query Processing Using Finite Cursor Machines
We introduce a new abstract model of database query processing, finite cursor machines, that incorporates certain data streaming aspects. The model describes quite faithfully what...
Martin Grohe, Yuri Gurevich, Dirk Leinders, Nicole...
SIGMOD
1996
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Cost-Based Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation
Magic sets rewriting is a well-known optimization heuristic for complex decision-support queries. There can be many variants of this rewriting even for a single query, which diffe...
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pir...