Query optimization
- 1 March 1996
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Computing Surveys
- Vol. 28 (1), 121-123
- https://doi.org/10.1145/234313.234367
Abstract
IntroductionImagine yourself standing in front of an exquisite buffet filled with numerous delicacies. Your goalis to try them all out, but you need to decide in what order. What exchange of tastes will maximizethe overall pleasure of your palate?Although much less pleasurable and subjective, that is the type of problem that query optimizersare called to solve. Given a query, there are many plans that a database management system(DBMS) can follow to process it and produce its answer....Keywords
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