Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
In addition to indexes and materialized views, horizontal and vertical partitioning are important aspects of physical design in a relational database system that significantly imp...
The paper investigates XML document speci cations with DTDs and integrity constraints, such as keysand foreign keys. We study the consistency problem of checking whether a given s...
XML Schema awareness has been an integral part of the XQuery language since its early design stages. Matching XML data against XML types is the main operation that backs up XQuery...
Testing and debugging database software is often challenging and time consuming. A very arduous task for DB testers is finding a min-repro ? the "simplest possible setup"...