A Procedure for the Determination of Attribute Access Probabilities

Summary: Practical procedure to determine attribute access probabilities for storage-structure selection. Recognizes five statistic-collection biases that confound prior methods, with experimental results showing advantages over staff techniques at a medium-sized manufacturer. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2143
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1978
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,607 | 0.13%
DOI: 10.1145/509252.509280

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Authors

1. Jon D. Clark (University of Texas)
2. Jeffrey A. Hoffer (Case Western Reserve University)

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@inproceedings{clark_sigmod78,
        title = {{A Procedure for the Determination of Attribute Access Probabilities}},
        author = {Clark, Jon D. and Hoffer, Jeffrey A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '78},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509252.509280},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509252.509280},
        year = {1978}
}

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