Extensibility is one of the mayor benefits of object-relational database management systems. We have used this system property to implement a StateMachine Module inside an object-...
Wolfgang Mahnke, Christian Mathis, Hans-Peter Stei...
Large enterprises in application domains such as finance, banking, travel services, and hospital management use business processes for their day-to-day business. An integral part ...
Eleanna Kafeza, Dickson K. W. Chiu, Kamalakar Karl...
Estimating the selectivity of queries is a crucial problem in database systems. Virtually all database systems rely on the use of selectivity estimates to choose amongst the many ...
Although integrity constraints have long been used to maintain data consistency, there are situations in which they may not be enforced or satisfied. In this paper, we present Con...
With XQuery becoming the standard language for querying XML, and the relational SQL platform being recognized as an important platform to store and process XML, the SQL/XML standa...