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)
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Authors
- 1. Hicham G. Elmongui (Alexandria University; Purdue University)
- 2. Vivek Narasayya (Microsoft)
- 3. Ravi Ramamurthy (Microsoft)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{elmongui_sigmod09,
title = {{A Framework for Testing Query Transformation Rules}},
author = {Elmongui, Hicham G. and Narasayya, Vivek and Ramamurthy, Ravi},
series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559874},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559874},
year = {2009}
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| 109 | Extensible/Rule Based Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst | 1992 | SIGMOD | 0.00032702871 |
| 189 | DB2 Design Advisor: Integrated Automatic Physical Database Design | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00025846085 |
| 259 | An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems | 1998 | PODS | 0.00022881075 |
| 378 | Massive Stochastic Testing of SQL | 1998 | VLDB | 0.000196128 |
| 751 | QAGen: Generating Query-Aware Test Databases | 2007 | SIGMOD | 0.00014245413 |
| 1,246 | Compressing SQL Workloads | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00011355447 |
| 1,901 | Generating Targeted Queries for Database Testing | 2008 | SIGMOD | 9.3902763e-05 |
| 4,127 | A genetic approach for random testing of database systems | 2007 | VLDB | 6.7775018e-05 |
| 5,746 | The Query Optimizer in Tandem’s new ServerWare SQL Product | 1996 | VLDB | 5.9917904e-05 |
| 6,883 | Efficient Regression Tests for Database Applications | 2005 | CIDR | 5.6407287e-05 |
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