| 2012 | ICDE | Mapping XML to a Wide Sparse Table. | Liang Jeff Chen, Philip A. Bernstein, Peter Carlin, Dimitrije Filipovic, Michael Rys, Nikita Shamgunov, James F. Terwilliger, Milos Todic, Sasa Tomasevic, Dragan Tomic |
| 2008 | SIGMOD | Spatial indexing in microsoft SQL server 2008. | Yi Fang, Marc T. Friedman, Giri Nair, Michael Rys, Ana-Elisa Schmid |
| 2005 | SIGMOD | XML and relational database management systems: inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005. | Michael Rys |
| 2005 | SIGMOD | XML and relational database management systems: the inside story. | Michael Rys, Donald D. Chamberlin, Daniela Florescu |
| 2005 | VLDB | XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System. | Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Oliver Seeliger, Michael Rys, Gideon Schaller, Wei Yu, Dragan Tomic, Adrian Baras, Brandon Berg, Denis Churin, Eugene Kogan |
| 2001 | BTW | Bringing the Internet to Your Database: Using SQLServer 2000 and XML to Build Loosely-Coupled Systems. | Michael Rys |
| 2001 | ICDE | Bringing the Internet to Your Database: Using SQLServer 2000 and XML to Build Loosely-Coupled Systems. | Michael Rys |
| 1998 | VLDB | Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data. | Serge Abiteboul, Jason McHugh, Michael Rys, Vasilis Vassalos, Janet L. Wiener |
| 1996 | VLDB | Intra-Transaction Parallelism in the Mapping of an Object Model to a Relational Multi-Processor System. | Michael Rys, Moira C. Norrie, Hans-Jrg Schek |