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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
2597
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1991
Pagerank
0.00035031529
Overall Rank
89 | 99.40%
DOI
10.1145/115790.115835

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ioannidis_sigmod91,
        title = {{On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results}},
        author = {Ioannidis, Yannis E. and Christodoulakis, Stavros},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/115790.115835},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115835},
        year = {1991}
}

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