Andrew Ross- Master of Science
- Editor at Springer Nature
Andrew Ross
- Master of Science
- Editor at Springer Nature
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I was a researcher in consciousness studies and database technology. Now I am retired and write wider studies. My current interests include quantum gravity developments and the sociology of Brexit. My next book is likely to be on Conservative politics in the UK.
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We present a method for transforming some outer joins to inner joins and describe a generalized semijoin reduction technique.
The first part of the paper shows how to transform a given outer join query whose join graph is a tree to an equivalent inner
join query. The method uses derived relations and join predicates. Derived relations contain colum...
Dieses Papier befasst sich mit einer Studieuber die Optimierungsmoglich- keiten von Anfragen auf verteilten Data Warehouse Architekturen mittels verschieden- artiger Verteilungsstrategien der beteiligten Tabellen am Beispiel SAP NetWeaver BI.
The new SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence accelerator is an engine that supports online analytical processing. It performs aggregation in memory and in query runtime over large volumes of structured data. This paper first briefly de- scribes the accelerator and its main architectural features, and cites test results that indicate its power. Then...
Sir Roger Penrose, retired professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and collaborator with Stephen Hawking on black hole theory, has written 'a complete guide to the laws of the universe' called The Road to Reality. His publisher calls it the most important and ambitious work of science for a generation. Penrose caused a furore in the wo...
