StatAdvisor: Recommending Statistical Views

Summary: Recommends automatic statistical views for a given workload to improve intermediate-cardinality estimates. Introduces plan-based candidate enumeration and benefit-based analysis to select views, validated via a DB2 prototype in the Design Advisor. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9905
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.311975e-05
Overall Rank: 5,824 | 59.53%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,154	SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning	2018	VLDB	9.4176683e-05
2,222	SkinnerDB: Regret-Bounded Query Evaluation via Reinforcement Learning	2019	SIGMOD	9.2598438e-05
2,589	Database Learning: Toward a Database that Becomes Smarter Every Time	2017	SIGMOD	8.4868591e-05
4,566	Adaptive Statistics in Oracle 12c	2017	VLDB	6.073045e-05
7,126	Guided automated learning for query workload re-optimization	2019	VLDB	4.8184704e-05
8,676	A Practical Approach to Groupjoin and Nested Aggregates	2021	VLDB	4.4652082e-05
11,087	Presto’s History-based Query Optimizer	2024	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
18	On Random Sampling over Joins	1999	SIGMOD	0.00092569117
46	Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases	1986	VLDB	0.00071588702
100	On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results	1991	SIGMOD	0.00050033475
160	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00040053897
181	LEO - DB2's LEarning Optimizer	2001	VLDB	0.00036970794
212	Join Synopses for Approximate Query Answering	1999	SIGMOD	0.00033997204
221	Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans	1998	SIGMOD	0.00033182072
224	CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies	2004	SIGMOD	0.00032743209
258	DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design	2004	VLDB	0.00030196528
650	Robust Query Processing through Progressive Optimization	2004	SIGMOD	0.0001865144
680	Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A Principled and Practical Approach	2005	SIGMOD	0.00018193263
786	Exploiting Statistics on Query Expressions for Optimization	2002	SIGMOD	0.00016624743
1,059	Answering Complex SQL Queries Using Automatic Summary Tables	2000	SIGMOD	0.00014370009
1,268	Proactive Re-Optimization	2005	SIGMOD	0.00012914584
3,013	Cardinality Estimation Using Sample Views with Quality Assurance	2007	SIGMOD	7.7082045e-05
3,398	Statistics on Views	2003	VLDB	7.1381433e-05
3,656	Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions	2004	SIGMOD	6.8712579e-05
5,019	Automated Statistics Collection in DB2 UDB	2004	VLDB	5.7492033e-05

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