—Many modern optimizers use a transformation rule based framework. While there has been a lot of work on identifying new transformation rules, there has been little work focused ...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Leo Giakoumakis, Vivek R. Naras...
An increasing number of applications use XML data published from relational databases. For speed and convenience, such applications routinely cache this XML data locally and acces...
Philip Bohannon, Sumit Ganguly, Henry F. Korth, P....
For object-oriented databases we propose a new technique for optimizing queries containing method invocations. This technique is based on the definition of inverse methods and que...
The need to improve a suboptimal execution plan picked by the query optimizer for a repeatedly run SQL query arises routinely. Complex expressions, skewed or correlated data, and ...
Statistics play an important role in influencing the plans produced by a query optimizer. Traditionally, optimizers use statistics built over base tables and assume independence b...