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On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results

Summary: Formal framework for how errors in statistics propagate to join size estimates and optimizer plans. Analyzes general, extreme, and average-case propagation; derives guarantees for statistics-driven plans; outlines strategies to control error growth. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2535
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1991
Pagerank
0.00050022914
Overall Rank
99 | 99.32%
DOI
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196 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries 1986 VLDB 0.00035261496
268 R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries 1986 SIGMOD 0.00029662304
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