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Why Database Manuals Are Not Enough: Efficient and Reliable Configuration Tuning for DBMSs via Code-Driven LLM Agents

Summary: SysInsight combines static analysis and LLM reasoning to mine DBMS source code for knob-controlled execution paths and fine-grained tuning insights, converting them into verifiable rules via association mining. It reaches optimal configurations 7.11× faster and improves performance 19.9%. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
14471
Venue
VLDB
Year
2026
Pagerank
5.093636e-05
Overall Rank
10,535 | 27.73%
DOI
10.14778/3797919.3797940

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BibTeX Citation

@article{zhang_vldb26,
        title = {{Why Database Manuals Are Not Enough: Efficient and Reliable Configuration Tuning for DBMSs via Code-Driven LLM Agents}},
        author = {Zhang, Xinyi and Chen, Tiantian and Han, Zhentao and Hong, Zhaoyan and Lu, Wei and Wang, Sheng and Sha, Mo and Wang, Anni and Liu, Shuang and Zhang, Yakun and Li, Feifei and Du, Xiaoyong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1358--1371},
        doi = {10.14778/3797919.3797940},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3797919.3797940},
        year = {2026}
}

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501 Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 2004 VLDB 0.0001738508
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1,344 An Inquiry into Machine Learning-based Automatic Configuration Tuning Services on Real-World Database Management Systems 2021 VLDB 0.00011094717
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3,587 HUNTER: An Online Cloud Database Hybrid Tuning System for Personalized Requirements 2022 SIGMOD 7.2829345e-05
3,926 UDO: Universal Database Optimization using Reinforcement Learning 2021 VLDB 7.0128068e-05
4,011 Towards Dynamic and Safe Configuration Tuning for Cloud Databases 2022 SIGMOD 6.959982e-05
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