Geo-Spatial Database Publications

• J. Gray, A. Szalay, T. Budavári, R. Lupton, M. Nieto-Santisteban, A. Thakar, “Cross-Matching Multiple Spatial Observations and Dealing with Missing Data”, MSR-TR-2006-175, December 2006.
• Budavári, T., Dobos, L., Szalay, A.S., Greene, G., Gray, J., Rots, A.H., “Footprint Services for Everyone”; Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XVI, ASP Conference Series, 2006 , ed. R. Shaw, F. Hill & D. Bell, San Francisco, 2006.
• Tom Barclay, Jim Gray, Steve Ekblad, Eric Strand, Jeffrey Richter, “Designing and Building TerraService,”  IEEE Internet Computing, V10.5, pp 61-2 September 2006, (see also MSR-TR-2002-53)
• Jim Gray, María A. Nieto-Santisteban, Alexander S. Szalay, “The Zones Algorithm for Finding Points-Near-a-Point or Cross-Matching Spatial Datasets,” MSR-TR-2006-52, April 2006.
• Gerd Heber, Jim Gray, “Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend Part II: Database Design and Access ”, MSR-TR-2005-21, March 2006.
• Naga K. Govindaraju, Jim Gray, Ritesh Kumar, Dinesh Manocha, “GPUTeraSort: High Performance Graphics Coprocessor Sorting for Large Database Management,” MSR-TR-2005-183, December 2005 To appear Proc. ACM SIGMOD 2006, June, Chicago, Ill.
• Gerd Heber, Chris Pelkie, Andrew Dolgert, Jim Gray, David Thompson,“Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend, Part III: OpenDX – Where the Numbers Come Alive?” pdf, MSR-TR-2005-151, November 2005.
• Alex Szalay, Jim Gray, Gyorgy Fekete, Peter Kunszt, Peter Kukol, Ani Thakar, “Indexing the Sphere with the Hierarchical Triangular Mesh,” pdf, MSR-TR-2005-123, September 2005.
• Jim Gray, Alex Szalay, Gyorgy Fekete, “Using Table Valued Functions in SQL Server 2005 To Implement a Spatial Data Library,” pdf, MSR-TR-2005-122, September 2005.
• Gerd Heber, Jim Gray, “Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend Part I: There is Life beyond Files?” pdf, MSR-TR-2005-49, April 2005.
• William O’Mullane, Nolan Li, Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, Ani Thakar, Alexander S. Szalay, Jim Gray, “Batch is back: CasJobs, serving multi-TB data on the Web,” pdf, MSR-TR-2005-19, February 2005.
• Jim Gray, Alexander S. Szalay, “Where the Rubber Meets the Sky: Bridging the Gap between Databases and Science,” pdf, MSR-TR-2004-110, October 2004, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, December 2004, Vol. 27.4, pp. 3-11.
• Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, Alexander S. Szalay, Aniruddha R. Thakar, William J. O’Mullane, Jim Gray, James Annis, “When Database Systems Meet The Grid,” pdf, MSR-TR-2004-81, August 2004. Proceedings of ACM CIDR 2005, Asilomar, CA, Jan 2005.
• Alexander S. Szalay, Gyorgy Fekete, Wil O’Mullane, Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban, Aniruddha R. Thakar, Gerd Heber, Arnold H. Rots, “There Goes the Neighborhood: Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Search”, pdf, MSR-TR-2004-32, April 2004.
• Tom Barclay, Jim Gray, Eric Strand, Steve Ekblad, Jeffrey Richter, “TerraService.NET: An Introduction to Web Services,” pdf, MSR TR 2002-53, pp 13, June 2002.
• T. Barclay, R. Eberl, J. Gray, J. Nordlinger, G. Raghavendran, D. Slutz, G. Smith, P. Smoot, J. Hoffman, N. Robb III, H. Rossmeissl, B. Duff, G. Lee, T. Mathesmier, R.Sunne, L.A. Stivers, K. Goodman, “The Microsoft TerraServer“, pdf, 1998, Technical Report, MSR-TR-98-17.
• J. Gray, S. Chaudhuri, A. Bosworth, A. Layman, D. Reichart, M. Venkatrao, F. Pellow, H. Pirahesh, “Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-by, Cross-Tab, and Sub Totals”, pdf,: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 1(1), 1997, 29-53.
• J. Gray, A. Bosworth, A. Layman, and H. Pirahesh, “Data Cube: A Relational Aggregation Operator Generalizing Group-By, Cross-Tab, and Sub-Totals,” pdf,. I CDE 1996. pp. 152-159.
• T. Barclay, J. Gray, D. Slutz “Microsoft TerraServer: A Spatial Data Warehouse“, pdf,, MS-TR-99-29. June 1999. ACM SIGMOD2000.