Data Skew in Parallel Joins Papers

Chris Walton wrote these papers as part of his dissertation research in 1990 and 1991. Unlike reports written for various employeers since then, they are in the public domain.

A Taxonomy and Performance Model of Data Skew Effects in Parallel Joins (with Alfred G. Dale and Roy M. Jenevein), presented at 17th Very Large Data Base Conference, Barcelona, Spain, September 1991.

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Data Skew and the Scalability of Parallel Joins (with Alfred G. Dale), accepted at 3rd IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, Texas, USA, December 1991.

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