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Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans

Summary: Mid-query re-optimization detects sub-optimal plans during execution via targeted statistics collection. These stats guide resource tuning or plan changes for the remainder, with low overhead; demonstrated in Paradise with gains on complex queries. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3068
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1998
Pagerank
0.00029161879
Overall Rank
151 | 98.97%
DOI
10.1145/276304.276315

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{kabra_sigmod98,
        title = {{Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans}},
        author = {Kabra, Navin and DeWitt, David J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276315},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276315},
        year = {1998}
}

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