An encrypted search algorithm (ESA) allows a user to encrypt its data while preserving the
ability to search over it. As all practical solutions leak some information, cryptanalysis plays …

Database access logs are the starting point for many forms of database administration, from
database performance tuning, to security auditing, to benchmark design, and many more …

It is quite common these days for experts, casual analysts, executives and data enthusiasts,
to analyze large datasets through user-friendly interfaces on top of Business Intelligence (BI) …

Today, many scientific data sets are open to the public. For their operators, it is important to
know what the users are interested in. In this paper, we study the problem of extracting and …

Formulating efficient SQL queries requires several cycles of tuning and execution. We
examine methods that can accelerate and improve this interaction by providing insights …

SQL query recommendation suggests an SQL statement to a user, based on his submitted
requests and on queries of other users stored in a log. Such methods need to be scalable …

In the sciences and elsewhere, the use of relational databases has become ubiquitous. An
important challenge is finding hot spots of user interests. In principle, one can discover user …

In this paper, we propose an approach to automatically detect focused portions of data cube
explorations by using different features of OLAP queries. While such a concept of focused …

Interactive database exploration is a key task in information mining. Relational databases
have been long used as a critical infrastructure component to access and analyze large …

This paper presents a set of analyses aiming at better understanding the SQLShare
workload Jain et al.(2016) and learning users' analysis behavior. SQLShare is a database …