Experience from a Real Life Query Optimizer
Summary: Real-world DB2 query optimizer, rooted in System R, shaped by extensive customer workloads on IBM mainframes. Details major enhancements, concrete examples, and a wishlist plus trends guiding future optimizer evolution. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yun Wang (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{wang_sigmod92,
title = {{Experience from a Real Life Query Optimizer}},
author = {Wang, Yun},
series = {{SIGMOD} '92},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/130283.130325},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/130283.130325},
year = {1992}
}
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| 274 | Balancing Histogram Optimality and Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation | 1995 | SIGMOD | 0.00022645621 |
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