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Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System

Summary: Access path selection for a single relation and for joins from a boolean predicate specification. System R, an IBM experimental DBMS, demonstrates automatic physical path choice to support SQL-like queries and research on the relational model. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2092
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1979
Pagerank
0.0040449103
Overall Rank
1 | 100.00%
DOI
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