SQL (Structured Query Language) is one of the essential topics in foundation databases courses in higher education. Due to its apparent simple syntax, learning to use the full pow...
Shazia Wasim Sadiq, Maria E. Orlowska, Wasim Sadiq...
Most modern DBMS optimizers rely upon a cost model to choose the best query execution plan (QEP) for any given query. Cost estimates are heavily dependent upon the optimizer’s e...
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mok...
Wide-area distribution raises significant performance problems for traditional query processing techniques as data access becomes less predictable due to link congestion, load imb...
Searching online information is increasingly a daily activity for many people. The multilinguality of online content is also increasing (e.g. the proportion of English web users, ...
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Radu Florian, Martin Franz, Hany...
The Web has the potential to become the world’s
largest knowledge base. In order to unleash this potential,
the wealth of information available on the Web needs to be
extracte...
Gjergji Kasneci, Fabian M. Suchanek, Georgiana Ifr...