Commercial database systems expose query hints to fix poor plans produced by the query optimizer. However, current query hints are not flexible enough to deal with a variety of no...
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Ravishankar Rama...
Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require users to provide distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest. In this paper we ...
Let a tuple of n objects obeying a query graph (QG) be called the n-tuple. The “Ddistance-value” of this n-tuple is the value of a linear function of distances of the n objects...
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...
Keyword searching while very successful in narrowing down the contents of the Web to the pertaining subset of information, has two primary drawbacks. First, the accuracy of the se...
Statistics play a key role in influencing the quality of plans chosen by a database query optimizer. In this paper, we identify the statistics that are essential for an optimizer....