A Framework for Testing Query Transformation Rules

Summary: Framework for testing query transformation rules in extensible, rule-based optimizers for databases. Enables efficient generation of queries that exercise single or multiple rules and scalable execution of test suites to validate rule interactions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4125
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 12,310 | 14.45%
DOI: -

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107	Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst	1992	SIGMOD	0.00048363446
258	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.00030196528
405	Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL	1998	VLDB	0.00024046204
454	An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems	1998	PODS	0.00022796106
882	QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases	2007	SIGMOD	0.00015634206
1,443	Compressing SQL Workloads	2002	SIGMOD	0.00011944621
2,280	Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing	2008	SIGMOD	9.1247368e-05
4,640	A genetic approach for random testing of database systems	2007	VLDB	6.0226611e-05
5,865	The Query Optimizer in Tandem's new ServerWare SQL Product	1996	VLDB	5.2945436e-05
6,718	Efficient Regression Tests for Database Applications	2005	CIDR	4.9459755e-05

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