Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach

Summary: Relaxation-based framework for automatic physical database tuning, reducing heuristics and assumptions in prior designs. Experiments show competitive or superior recommendations vs top commercial solutions across large workloads and multiple structures. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3700
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 0.00014173242
Overall Rank: 768 | 94.74%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066184

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Authors

1. Nicolas Bruno (Microsoft)
2. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bruno_sigmod05,
        title = {{Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach}},
        author = {Bruno, Nicolas and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066184},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066184},
        year = {2005}
}

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334	An End-to-End Automatic Cloud Database Tuning System Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	0.00020875082
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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0024089429
54	On Random Sampling over Joins	1999	SIGMOD	0.00040810225
87	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00035281619
156	An Efficient, Cost-Driven Index Selection Tool for Microsoft SQL Server	1997	VLDB	0.00028636811
184	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.00026256101
387	AutoAdmin "What-if" Index Analysis Utility	1998	SIGMOD	0.00019442332
501	Database Tuning Advisor for Microsoft SQL Server 2005	2004	VLDB	0.0001738508
524	Automatic SQL Tuning in Oracle 10g	2004	VLDB	0.00017120666

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