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Plan Stitch: Harnessing the Best of Many Plans

Summary: Plan Stitch opportunistically stitches efficient subplans from past plans into a valid new plan cheaper than any single prior plan. Implemented on SQL Server; evaluated with TPC-DS and real workloads, achieving up to 100x cost reductions versus reverting to the cheapest previous plan. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11606
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
4.6537231e-05
Overall Rank
7,776 | 45.91%
DOI
10.14778/3231751.3231761

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71 How Good Are Query Optimizers, Really? 2016 VLDB 0.00059038975
179 Efficient and Extensible Algorithms for Multi Query Optimization 2000 SIGMOD 0.00037672155
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252 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.00030632263
512 STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram 2001 SIGMOD 0.00021380733
529 Self-tuning Histograms: Building Histograms Without Looking at Data 1999 SIGMOD 0.00020828852
684 Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00018179769
731 Optimizing Queries Using Materialized Views: A Practical, Scalable Solution 2001 SIGMOD 0.00017468889
790 Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization 2002 SIGMOD 0.0001663283
1,017 Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach 2005 SIGMOD 0.00014634307
1,019 Robust Estimation of Resource Consumption for SQL Queries using Statistical Techniques 2012 VLDB 0.00014625603
1,726 Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms 1998 VLDB 0.00010741411
1,758 Sampling-Based Query Re-Optimization 2016 SIGMOD 0.00010655546
1,962 Plan Selection based on Query Clustering 2002 VLDB 9.950467e-05
1,986 AniPQO: Almost Non-intrusive Parametric Query Optimization for Nonlinear Cost Functions 2003 VLDB 9.8536784e-05
2,484 Efficient Use of the Query Optimizer for Automated Physical Design 2007 VLDB 8.6864279e-05
2,787 To Tune or not to Tune? A Lightweight Physical Design Alerter 2006 VLDB 8.1263608e-05
3,013 Cardinality Estimation Using Sample Views with Quality Assurance 2007 SIGMOD 7.7137441e-05
4,436 Xplus: A SQL-Tuning-Aware Query Optimizer 2010 VLDB 6.1909336e-05
5,668 A Pay-As-You-Go Framework for Query Execution Feedback 2008 VLDB 5.3806337e-05
6,479 Leveraging Re-costing for Online Optimization of Parameterized Queries with Guarantees 2017 SIGMOD 5.0483805e-05
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