Query Optimization at the Crossroads
Summary: Survey of query optimization at a crossroads of transformations, cost-based search, and extensible optimizers. Highlights enduring challenges: selectivity/cost estimation, search-space understanding, nested-query optimization, and middleware/hints reshaping the optimizer landscape. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
- 2. Sanju Bansal (MicroStrategy)
- 3. Rick Cole (Redbrick)
- 4. Goetz Graefe (Microsoft)
- 5. Yannis Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin)
- 6. Hamid Pirahesh (IBM)
- 7. Mike Stonebraker (Informix)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chaudhuri_sigmod97,
title = {{Query Optimization at the Crossroads}},
author = {Chaudhuri, Surajit and Bansal, Sanju and Cole, Rick and Graefe, Goetz and Ioannidis, Yannis and Pirahesh, Hamid and Stonebraker, Mike},
series = {{SIGMOD} '97},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/253260.253374},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/253260.253374},
year = {1997}
}
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