In this video, you’ll learn how to sort names by last name in Excel, even when first and last names are in the same cell. We walk through simple methods using built-in Excel tools to organize your ...

Detailed statistics are given on the length of maximal sorted strings which result from the first (internal sort) phase of a merge sort onto tapes. It is shown that the strings produced by an ...

Add merge/sort for ORDER BY cross-shard queries. This is an optimization on top of the current implementation. Right now, we are buffering all rows in memory. This is not great if result sets are ...

Abstract: This research work introduces a clustering-based in-place sorting algorithm, cluster sort. It is designed in such a way that it improves sorting efficiency by using data locality. It works ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

Merge sort is entirely different than the sorting algorithms we’ve seen so far, and it represents an important class of algorithms—divide-and-conquer algorithms. Divide-and-conquer algorithms work by ...

Abstract: Motivated by the DNA storage paradigm, we consider the torn-paper channel (TPC), which models data storage in long DNA molecules and breaks the input sequence into a random number of ...