Distributed database design is a complex process that involves a set of distinct aspects for the accomplishment of an adequate data distribution (Buretta 1997). Many of these aspec...
: The integrity of B-tree structures can become compromised for many reasons. Since these inconsistencies manifest themselves in unpredictable ways, all commercial database managem...
The cardinality constraint is one of the most important constraints that can be established in a conceptual model. Nevertheless, not all CASE tools for developing database support...
Harith T. Al-Jumaily, Dolores Cuadra, Paloma Mart&...
There has been a great deal of interest in recent years on ranking query results in relational databases. This paper presents a novel method to rank objects (e.g., tuples) by explo...
In many database applications, there are opportunities for multiple top-N queries to be evaluated at the same time. Often it is more cost effective to evaluate multiple such queri...