On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results
Summary: Formal framework for how errors in statistics propagate to join size estimates and optimizer plans. Analyzes general, extreme, and average-case propagation; derives guarantees for statistics-driven plans; outlines strategies to control error growth. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yannis E. Ioannidis (University of Wisconsin)
- 2. Stavros Christodoulakis (Technical University of Crete; University of Waterloo)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ioannidis_sigmod91,
title = {{On the Propagation of Errors in the Size of Join Results}},
author = {Ioannidis, Yannis E. and Christodoulakis, Stavros},
series = {{SIGMOD} '91},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/115790.115835},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/115790.115835},
year = {1991}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 345 | R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries | 1986 | VLDB | 0.00020445813 |
| 396 | R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Local Queries | 1986 | SIGMOD | 0.00019119719 |
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