User-Optimizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE

Summary: Introduces Sybase ASE Abstract Plans: a physical relational-algebra language enabling two-way user–optimizer communication. Persistent catalog objects let optimizers expose chosen plans and users steer/reuse them independently of query text, mitigating optimizer errors. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hf13b14b3b5e8123a
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 5.3589207e-05
Overall Rank: 8,296 | 44.25%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Mihnea Andrei (Sybase France)
2. Patrik Valduriez (University of Paris 6)

BibTeX Citation

@article{andrei_vldb01,
        title = {{User-Optimizer Communication using Abstract Plans in Sybase ASE}},
        author = {Andrei, Mihnea and Valduriez, Patrik},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,508	Xplus: A SQL-Tuning-Aware Query Optimizer	2010	VLDB	6.5696141e-05
10,371	Leveraging Query Optimizers to Verify the Soundness of LLM-based Query Rewrites for Real-World Workloads, and More!	2026	CIDR	4.9769913e-05
12,799	Ordering, Distinctness, Aggregation, Partitioning and DQP Optimization in Sybase ASE 15	2009	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
1	Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System	1979	SIGMOD	0.0023943337
88	Automated Selection of Materialized Views and Indexes for SQL Databases	2000	VLDB	0.00035340164
93	Encapsulation of Parallelism in the Volcano Query Processing System	1990	SIGMOD	0.00034607573
97	Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers	1987	VLDB	0.00034111286
118	The EXODUS Optimizer Generator	1987	SIGMOD	0.00031381726
132	Optimization of Nested SQL Queries Revisited	1987	SIGMOD	0.00030228229
196	Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query Optimization Alternatives	1988	SIGMOD	0.00025616489
202	Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments	1995	VLDB	0.0002523837
213	Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation	1995	VLDB	0.00024753576
272	An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems	1998	PODS	0.0002251422
273	Extensible Query Processing in Starburst	1989	SIGMOD	0.00022498382
288	Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans	1994	SIGMOD	0.00021964339
477	Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans	1989	SIGMOD	0.00017640718
532	Answering Recursive Queries Using Views	1997	PODS	0.00016821057
631	A Rule-Based View of Query Optimization	1987	SIGMOD	0.00015411265
1,449	Design and Analysis of Parametric Query Optimization Algorithms	1998	VLDB	0.00010616486
2,627	On the Effectiveness of Optimization Search Strategies for Parallel Execution Spaces	1993	VLDB	8.2030431e-05
8,154	Optimization of Object-Oriented Recursive Queries using Cost-Controlled Strategies	1992	SIGMOD	5.3883113e-05

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