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QO-Insight: Inspecting Steered Query Optimizers

Summary: Presents QO-Insight, a visual analytics tool for exploring execution traces of steered query optimizers that accept per-query hints to correct planner mistakes. Enables DBAs to open the black box, qualitatively diagnose steering effects and improve steering strategies. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
13229
Venue
VLDB
Year
2023
Pagerank
4.299267e-05
Overall Rank
9,710 | 32.45%
DOI
10.14778/3611540.3611586

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Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
5,640 AutoSteer: Learned Query Optimization for Any SQL Database 2023 VLDB 5.3933314e-05
10,568 QOVIS: Understanding and Diagnosing Query Optimizer via a Visualization-assisted Approach 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
640 Bao: Making Learned Query Optimization Practical 2021 SIGMOD 0.00018759152
1,300 The Picasso Database Query Optimizer Visualizer 2010 VLDB 0.00012733214
4,690 Deploying a Steered Query Optimizer in Production at Microsoft 2022 SIGMOD 5.997226e-05
4,735 A SQL Debugger Built from Spare Parts: Turning a SQL:1999 Database System into Its Own Debugger 2015 SIGMOD 5.9612875e-05
5,640 AutoSteer: Learned Query Optimization for Any SQL Database 2023 VLDB 5.3933314e-05
5,780 MOCHA: A Tool for Visualizing Impact of Operator Choices in Query Execution Plans for Database Education 2022 VLDB 5.3298375e-05
6,040 Steering Query Optimizers: A Practical Take on Big Data Workloads 2021 SIGMOD 5.2412035e-05
6,287 What Makes a Good Physical Plan? — Experiencing Hardware-Conscious Query Optimization with Candomble 2016 SIGMOD 5.127646e-05
6,288 QE3D: Interactive Visualization and Exploration of Complex, Distributed Query Plans 2015 SIGMOD 5.127646e-05
7,440 Interactive Plan Hints for Query Optimization 2009 SIGMOD 4.7302233e-05
8,212 I-Rex: An Interactive Relational Query Explainer for SQL 2020 VLDB 4.5580125e-05
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