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VLDB
1992
ACM
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Incomplete Information in Relational Temporal Databases
For the conventional relational model there has been considerable research in the area of incomplete information. On the other hand, research in temporal databases has concentrated...
Shashi K. Gadia, Sunil S. Nair, Yiu-Cheong Poon
VLDB
1992
ACM
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On B-Tree Indices for Skewed Distributions
It is often the case that the set of values over which a B-Tree is constructed has a skewed distribution. We present a geometric growth technique to manage postings records in suc...
Christos Faloutsos, H. V. Jagadish
VLDB
1992
ACM
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Performance and Scalability of Client-Server Database Architectures
Recent developments in software and hardware changed the way database systems are built and operate. In this paper we present database architectures based on the Client Server par...
Alex Delis, Nick Roussopoulos
VLDB
1992
ACM
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Practical Skew Handling in Parallel Joins
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
VLDB
1992
ACM
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A Uniform Approach to Processing Temporal Queries
Research in temporal databases has mainly focused on defining temporal data models by extending existing models, and developing access structures for temporal data. Little has bee...
Umeshwar Dayal, Gene T. J. Wuu
VLDB
1992
ACM
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Extensible Buffer Management of Indexes
Most extensibledatabasesystemssupportaddition of new indexes or new data types. However, the referencepatterns exhibited by these new indexes may not be efficiently supportedby ex...
Chee Yong Chan, Beng Chin Ooi, Hongjun Lu
VLDB
1992
ACM
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Dynamic Data Distribution (D3) in a Shared-Nothing Multiprocessor Data Store
Donald D. Chamberlin, Frank B. Schmuck
VLDB
1992
ACM
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Using Segmented Right-Deep Trees for the Execution of Pipelined Hash Joins
In this paper, we explore the execution of pipelined hash joins in a multiprocessor-based database system. To improve the query execution, an innovative approach on query executio...
Ming-Syan Chen, Ming-Ling Lo, Philip S. Yu, Honest...
VLDB
1992
ACM
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Production Rules in Parallel and Distributed Database Environments
In most database systems with production rule facilities, rules respond to operations on centralized data and rule processing is performed in a centralized, sequential fashion. In ...
Stefano Ceri, Jennifer Widom