The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on XML-relational database management systems, XML...

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The world of IT is always evolving, but in every area there are stable, core concepts that anyone just setting out needed to know last year, needs to know this year, and will still need to know next year. The purpose of the Foundations series, is to identify these concepts and present them in a way that gives you the strongest...

The 42 revised full papers presented together with 2 industrial application papers, 15 software demos, and 3 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected...

ost of the time, a book about optimization is viewed as a book for DBAs. Since our goal is to prove that optimization is more than just building indexes, we hope that this book will be beneficial for a broader audience.

This book is for IT professionals working in PostgreSQL who want to develop performant and scalable...

You'll learn the basics of working with SSE databases, and see how the Visual Basic® 2005 Express Edition programming environment is tailored to work well with SSE. Step-by-step examples cover major scenarios that you're likely to face, from installation and development to debugging and deployment. Plus, the CD-ROM features both VB Express...

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