Evaluating the Size of Queries on Relational Databases with non Uniform Distribution and Stochastic Dependence
Summary: Probabilistic model for estimating the size of query results under non-uniform attribute distributions and stochastic dependence. Exact for independent attributes; approximate under dependence, with analytic results validated by simulation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Silvio Salza (National Research Council of Italy)
- 2. Mario Terranova (National Research Council of Italy)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{salza_sigmod89,
title = {{Evaluating the Size of Queries on Relational Databases with non Uniform Distribution and Stochastic Dependence}},
author = {Salza, Silvio and Terranova, Mario},
series = {{SIGMOD} '89},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/67544.66927},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/67544.66927},
year = {1989}
}
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| 3,996 | Estimating Block Accesses When Attributes Are Correlated | 1986 | VLDB | 6.9682171e-05 |
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