“SQL on everything” is the tagline associated with Presto, the query engine that was initially developed by Facebook to rapidly analyze massive amounts of data — particularly data that lay scattered ...

This book aims to give you the tools and knowledge to get peak performance from your queries, how does it fare? The book, which is largely an update to the author’s Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Query ...

Query optimisation in distributed database systems addresses the challenge of selecting an efficient execution plan across multiple networked nodes. Owing to the combinatorial explosion of possible ...

Query processing and optimisation form the backbone of relational database management, transforming high‐level declarative requests into efficient execution strategies. The pipeline begins with ...

Relational calculus. Query processing and optimization. Transaction processing: failure, recovery, and concurrency. Database security. Logic-based systems. Parallel ...