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Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System

Summary: Access path selection for a single relation and for joins from a boolean predicate specification. System R, an IBM experimental DBMS, demonstrates automatic physical path choice to support SQL-like queries and research on the relational model. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h49868142d9c2ae1f
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1979
Pagerank
0.0023948467
Overall Rank
1 | 100.00%
DOI
10.1145/582095.582099

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{selinger_sigmod79,
        title = {{Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System}},
        author = {Selinger, P. Griffiths and Astrahan, M. M. and Chamberlin, D. D. and Lorie, R. A. and Price, T. G.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '79},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582095.582099},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582095.582099},
        year = {1979}
}

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