The management of modern IT systems poses unique challenges, necessitating scalability,
reliability, and efficiency in handling extensive data streams. Traditional methods, reliant on …

Today's database systems include index advisors that recommend an appropriate set of
indexes for an input workload. Since index tuning on large and complex workloads can be …

Database access logs are the starting point for many forms of database administration, from
database performance tuning, to security auditing, to benchmark design, and many more …

Modern database systems offer index-tuning advisors that automatically identify a set of
indexes to improve workload performance. Advisors leverage the optimizer's what-if API to …

This work studies the problem of constructing a representative workload from a given input
analytical query workload where the former serves as an approximation with guarantees of …

One of the data security and privacy concerns is of insider threats, where legitimate users of
the system abuse the access privileges they hold. The insider threat to data security means …

Making internet-of-things (IoT)-based applications context-aware demands large amounts of
raw data to be collected, interpreted, stored, and reused or repurposed if needed from many …

Among daily tasks of database administrators (DBAs), the analysis of query workloads to
identify schema issues and improving performances is crucial. Although DBAs can easily …

Formulating efficient SQL queries requires several cycles of tuning and execution. We
examine methods that can accelerate and improve this interaction by providing insights …

In cybersecurity, malicious insider threats represent a huge issue for organizations and may
pose the greatest threat category. Combating the insider risks need an understanding of the …