Jeff Pittges

Database Systems
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology

Jeff Pittges completed his PhD in December 1995 and joined the ConText Server Group at Oracle where he developed a multi-lingual linguistic engine capable of retrieving, analyzing, and classifying documents. Dr. Pittges is currently a senior software engineer in the Query Technology Group at Red Brick Systems, a database company specializing in data warehousing.

Dissertation Research:

Jeff Pittges has developed a framework to support the integration of various types of query optimization (e.g., semantic query optimization, multiple query optimization, caching and incremental query computation). The framework is based on a single metadatabase, called the Metadata View Graph, that maintains semantic, statistical, and structural metadata.

Related Publications

Dissertation Abstract

Maintaining Dynamic Semantic Rules for Query Optimization -- Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Maintaining Semantic and Structural Metadata in the Metadata View Graph Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference On Management of Data, Pune, India, December 1995.

Maintaining Instance-Based Constraints for Semantic Query Optimization Proceedings of the Sixth IFIP TC-2 Working Conference on Data Semantics (DS-6), Stone Mountain, Georgia, May 1995

Contact Information:

Jeff Pittges, PhD
Senior Software Engineer
Red Brick Systems
485 Alberto Way
Los Gatos, CA 95032

Phone: (408) 399-7138
E-mail: pittges@redbrick.com