Category Archives: Database Storage & Design

Computational Intelligence in Optimization: Applications and Implementations (Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization)

This volume presents a collection of recent studies covering the spectrum of computational intelligence applications with emphasis on their application to challenging real-world problems. Topics covered include: Intelligent agent-based algorithms, Hybrid intelligent systems, Cognitive and evolutionary robotics, Knowledge-Based Engineering, fuzzy … Continue reading

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Managing Time in Relational Databases: How to Design, Update and Query Temporal Data

Managing Time in Relational Databases shows how to make the rich information content of bi-temporal data available to business users, while simplifying the design, maintenance and retrieval of that data. Metadata declarations eliminate the need to directly model temporal data. … Continue reading

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DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA

DBA Survivor is a book to help new DBAs understand more about the world of database administration. More and more people are moving into the DBA profession, and many are looking for a getting-started guide. Blogs are written about how … Continue reading

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MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers

Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don’t have to bring everything to a halt. MySQL has several features that can help you protect your system from outages, whether it’s running on … Continue reading

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Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery (Osborne ORACLE Press Series)

Master Oracle Recovery Master Protect your databases from hardware, software, and operator failures using the detailed information in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery explains how to configure databases, generate accurate archives, and carry out system … Continue reading

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SQL Clearly Explained, Third Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

Although the core of the SQL language remains relatively unchanged, the most recent release of the SQL standard (SQL:2008) includes two sets of extensions: 1) support for object-relational databases and 2) support for XML. The second edition of this book … Continue reading

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Practical MDX Queries: For Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2008

300+ ready-to-use, powerful MDX queries This hands-on guide shows you how to use Multi-Dimensional Expressions (MDX) to extract business intelligence from multi-dimensional cubes. Practical MDX Queries contains more than 300 downloadable MDX queries that can be applied across a wide … Continue reading

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The Kimball Group Reader: Relentlessly Practical Tools for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

An unparalleled collection of recommended guidelines for data warehousing and business intelligence pioneered by Ralph Kimball and his team of colleagues from the Kimball Group. Recognized and respected throughout the world as the most influential leaders in the data warehousing … Continue reading

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Advances in Intelligent Information and Database Systems (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

The book consists of 32 extended chapters which have been based on selected submissions to the poster session organized during the 2nd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (24-26 March 2010 in Hue, Vietnam). The book is organized … Continue reading

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Keyword Search in Databases (Synthesis Lectures on Data Management)

It has become highly desirable to provide users with flexible ways to query/search information over databases as simple as keyword search like Google search. This book surveys the recent developments on keyword search over databases, and focuses on finding structural … Continue reading

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