Self-tuning is a feature of autonomic databases that includes the problem of automatic
schema design. It aims at providing an optimized schema that increases the overall …

A self-healing database engine and optimizer framework support automatically responding
to execution errors to allow continued execution of a query plan. Upon encountering an …

Trust has become one of the most important issues in online social Networks. In fact, the
basic idea of trust systems is to help users and allow them to rate each other even without …

Software development nowadays involves several levels of abstraction: starting from the
programming of single objects, to their combination into components, to their publication as …

Due to the complexity of industry-scale database systems, the total cost of ownership for
these systems is no longer dominated by hardware and software, but by administration …

Databases are growing rapidly in scale and complexity. High performance, availability, and
further service level agreements need to be satisfied under any circumstances to please …

The workload in large-scale data repositories involves concurrent users and contains
homogenous and heterogeneous data. The large volume of data, dynamic behavior and …

Microsoft Azure is a public cloud computing platform. It provides various cloud computing
services, which includes computing, data analytics, storage resources and network …

Database administrators should be aware of resource usages to maintain database system
performance. As database applications become more complex and diverse, managing …

Workload management is the discipline of effectively managing, controlling, and monitoring
work flow across computing systems. It is an increasingly important requirement of database …