Resource Description Framework (RDF) query processing and optimization underpin the efficient retrieval and manipulation of data within vast, interconnected datasets. At its core, these technologies ...

Skyline query processing is a critical research area within database management and big data analytics, focused on retrieving a subset of data points that are not outperformed by any other entries ...

In a modern enterprise data environment, the increasing volume of data, distributed architecture, and complex application dependencies challenge traditional query-tuning methods. Observability ...

“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

In SQL Server 2017, when the query optimizer encounters code with a multi-statement TVF, the query optimizer will pause optimization, execute the TVF subtree to get a very accurate cardinality ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...

Natural language processing opened the door for semantic search on Google. SEOs need to understand the switch to entity-based search because this is the future of Google search. In this article, we’ll ...

Transforming the query may involve transforming plaintext values to ciphertext values, indicating one or more user-defined functions (UDFs) in place of query operations to perform equivalent ...