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VLDB
2001
ACM
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15 years 8 months ago
Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports
Estimating the number of distinct values is a wellstudied problem, due to its frequent occurrence in queries and its importance in selecting good query plans. Previous work has sh...
Phillip B. Gibbons
KES
2004
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Classification of Fuzzy Data in Database Management System
When the available information is imperfect, it is often desirable to represent it in the database, so that it can be used to answer queries of interest as much as possible. The da...
Deval Popat, Hema Sharda, David Taniar
AMW
2009
15 years 5 months ago
Data Expiration and Aggregate Queries
We investigate the space requirements for summaries needed for maintaining exact answers to aggregate queries over histories of relational databases. We show that, in general, a su...
David Toman
SIGMOD
2004
ACM
173views Database» more  SIGMOD 2004»
16 years 4 months ago
Relaxed Currency and Consistency: How to Say "Good Enough" in SQL
Despite the widespread and growing use of asynchronous copies to improve scalability, performance and availability, this practice still lacks a firm semantic foundation. Applicati...
Hongfei Guo, Jonathan Goldstein, Per-Åke Lar...
EDBT
2008
ACM
137views Database» more  EDBT 2008»
16 years 4 months ago
Synthesizing structured text from logical database subsets
In the classical database world, information access has been based on a paradigm that involves structured, schema-aware, queries and tabular answers. In the current environment, h...
Alkis Simitsis, Georgia Koutrika, Yannis Alexandra...