Query Processing in Database Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985)

This book is an anthology of the results of research and development in database query processing during the past decade. The relational model of data provided tremendous impetus for research into query processing. Since a relational query does not specify access paths to the stored data, the database management system (DBMS) must provide an intelligent query-processing subsystem which will evaluate a number of potentially efficient strategies for processing the query and select the one that optimizes a given performance measure. The degree of sophistication of this subsystem, often called the optimizer, critically affects the performance of the DBMS. Research into query processing thus started has taken off in several directions during the past decade. The emergence of research into distributed databases has enormously complicated the tasks of the optimizer. In a distributed environment, the database may be partitioned into horizontal or vertical fragments of relations. Replicas of the fragments may be stored in different sites of a network and even migrate to other sites. The measure of performance of a query in a distributed system must include the communication cost between sites. To minimize communication costs for-queries involving multiple relations across multiple sites, optimizers may also have to consider semi-join techniques.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Topics in Information Systems
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	1985
Editors:	W. Kim • D. S. Reiner • Don Batory
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	366
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1985
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-82377-0
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > Programming languages > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Databases > General Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General
LSN:	3-642-82377-7
Barcode:	9783642823770

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