A Practical Issue Concerning Very Large Data Bases: The Need for Query Governors

Summary: Highlights query governors as essential safeguards for shared, very large information warehouses, preventing inexperienced users’ runaway queries from monopolizing resources. Frames governor construction as both a practical systems challenge and a theoretical database problem. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8363
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1993
Pagerank: 5.5181056e-05
Overall Rank: 7,949 | 45.47%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Gerald Cohen (Information Builders, Inc.)

BibTeX Citation

@article{cohen_vldb93,
        title = {{A Practical Issue Concerning Very Large Data Bases: The Need for Query Governors}},
        author = {Cohen, Gerald},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '93},
        pages = {705},
        year = {1993}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,075	The Voice of the Customer: Innovative and Useful Research Directions	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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