Query optimisation remains a critical discipline in database systems, underpinning the efficiency and responsiveness of data-driven applications. By selecting optimal execution plans, modern query ...

About three years ago, Google launched search query data within Google Webmaster Tools. The reporting in the search queries data is one of the more value areas within Webmaster Tools, especially since ...

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 ...