Effective Use of Block-Level Sampling in Statistics Estimation

Summary: Block-level sampling is efficient but error-prone for statistics. Proposes a two-phase adaptive histogram algorithm using a phase-1 sample and a subset-extraction technique to adapt estimators to block-level distinct-value data; experiments show accuracy and speed gains. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3527
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2004
Pagerank: 0.00010529479
Overall Rank: 1,790 | 87.57%
DOI: -

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63	Improved Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates	1996	SIGMOD	0.00063595699
92	Practical Selectivity Estimation through Adaptive Sampling	1990	SIGMOD	0.00051431888
270	Fast Incremental Maintenance of Approximate Histograms	1997	VLDB	0.00029648047
291	Error-Constrained COUNT Query Evaluation in Relational Databases	1991	SIGMOD	0.00028778973
369	Sequential Sampling Procedures For Query Size Estimation	1992	SIGMOD	0.00025502381
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