Execution plans produced by traditional query optimizers for data integration queries may yield poor performance for several reasons. The cost estimates may be inaccurate, the mem...
In order to make database systems interoperate with systems beyond traditional application areas a new paradigm called \exporting database functionality" as a radical departur...
As databases get widely deployed, it becomes increasingly important to reduce the overhead of database administration. An important aspect of data administration that critically i...
Queries to data warehouses often involve hundreds of complex aggregations over large volumes of data, and so it is infeasible to compute these queries by scanning the data sources ...
In a number of application areas, distributed database systems can be used to provide persistent storage of data while providing efficient access for both local and remote data. W...