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most citedDeploying a Steered Query Optimizer in Production at Microsoft

20 citations · 32 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.DB2026

Guided Table Retrieval for Structured Data Search

Alekh Jindal, Jyoti Pandey, Christina Pavlopoulou +5

Answering natural language questions over structured databases requires identifying the relevant tables and determining how to join them---a task that demands both schema knowledge…

cs.DB2026

Reverse Migration of Cloud Applications to On-premises

Alekh Jindal, Jyoti Pandey, Christina Pavlopoulou +5

Cloud has become ubiquitous to modern applications due to its agility and scalability. However, regulated industries still prefer to deploy on-premises due to security and complian…

cs.DB2026

Generating Query Context for Relational Databases

Alekh Jindal, Jyoti Pandey, Christina Pavlopoulou +5

Relational databases are the systems of record for business applications, and there is growing demand to query them through natural language interfaces. A key challenge is that AI…

cs.DC2023★ 2 cited

Parallel Prefix Sum with SIMD

Wangda Zhang, Yanbin Wang, Kenneth A. Ross

The prefix sum operation is a useful primitive with a broad range of applications. For database systems, it is a building block of many important operators including join, sort and…

cs.DB2022★ 20 cited

Deploying a Steered Query Optimizer in Production at Microsoft

Wangda Zhang, Matteo Interlandi, Paul Mineiro +6

Modern analytical workloads are highly heterogeneous and massively complex, making generic query optimizers untenable for many customers and scenarios. As a result, it is important…

stat.ML2022

Conditionally Risk-Averse Contextual Bandits

Mónika Farsang, Paul Mineiro, Wangda Zhang

Contextual bandits with average-case statistical guarantees are inadequate in risk-averse situations because they might trade off degraded worst-case behaviour for better average p…

cs.DB2019★ 10 cited

Exploiting Data Skew for Improved Query Performance

Wangda Zhang, Kenneth A. Ross

Analytic queries enable sophisticated large-scale data analysis within many commercial, scientific and medical domains today. Data skew is a ubiquitous feature of these real-world…