Materialised view selection is a critical process in data warehousing that significantly enhances the performance of online analytical processing systems. This process involves the pre-computation and ...

The beauty and joy of a relational database is the concept of relational closure—everything is a table. Beyond the eponymous table, query results are also “tables.” Any query serves as a table to be ...

Folks relate to physical tables; even the most non-relational-minded person can picture a fixed structure file and equate that to a table and its columns. The spreadsheet image is ubiquitous.