1. Introduction
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Donald D. Chamberlin, A. M. Gilbert, Robert A. Yost: A History of System R
and SQL/Data System (Invited Paper) VLDB 1981: 456-464
Laura M. Haas, Walter Chang, Guy M. Lohman, John McPherson, Paul F. Wilms,
George Lapis, Bruce G. Lindsay, Hamid Pirahesh, Michael J. Carey, Eugene J.
Shekita: Starburst Mid-Flight: As the Dust Clears. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
2(1): 143-160 (1990)
Peter Gassner, Guy M. Lohman, K. Bernhard Schiefer, Yun Wang: Query
Optimization in the IBM DB2 Family. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 16(4): 4-18 (1993)
Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt, Daniel Frank, Goetz Graefe, Joel E.
Richardson, Eugene J. Shekita, M. Muralikrishna: The Architecture of the
EXODUS Extensible DBMS. On Object-Oriented Database System 1991: 231256
Goetz Graefe, William J. McKenna: The Volcano Optimizer Generator:
Extensibility and Efficient Search. ICDE 1993: 209-218
Lothar F. Mackert, Guy M. Lohman: R* Optimizer Validation and Performance
Evaluation for Local Queries. SIGMOD Conference 1986: 84-95
Guy M. Lohman: Grammar-like Functional Rules for Representing Query
Optimization Alternatives. SIGMOD Conference 1988: 18-27
Goetz Graefe, David J. DeWitt: The EXODUS Optimizer Generator. SIGMOD
Conference 1987: 160-172
Patricia G. Selinger, Morton M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond A.
Lorie, Thomas G. Price: Access Path Selection in a Relational Database
Management System. SIGMOD Conference 1979: 23-34
S. Bing Yao, D. DeJong: Evaluation of Database Access Paths. SIGMOD
Conference 1978: 66-77
2. Rewrite Optimization
1. General
 M. Muralikrishna, David J. DeWitt: Optimization of Multiple-Relation
Multiple-Disjunct Queries. PODS 1988: 263-275
1. Examples from Starburst
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Hamid Pirahesh, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Waqar Hasan: Extensible/Rule Based
Query Rewrite Optimization in Starburst. SIGMOD Conference 1992: 39-48
2. Nested queries
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Won Kim: On Optimizing an SQL-like Nested Query. ACM Trans. Database
Syst. 7(3): 443-469 (1982)
Werner Kießling: On Semantic Reefs and Efficient Processing of Correlation
Queries with Aggregates. VLDB 1985: 241-250
Richard A. Ganski, Harry K. T. Wong: Optimization of Nested SQL Queries
Revisited. SIGMOD Conference 1987: 23-33
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Umeshwar Dayal: Of Nests and Trees: A Unified Approach to Processing Queries
That Contain Nested Subqueries, Aggregates, and Quantifiers. VLDB 1987: 197208
M. Muralikrishna: Improved Unnesting Algorithms for Join Aggregate SQL
Queries. VLDB 1992: 91-102
Ravindra Guravannavar, H. S. Ramanujam, S. Sudarshan: Optimizing Nested
Queries with Parameter Sort Orders. 481-492 VLDB 2005
3. Semantic query opt.
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Jonathan J. King: QUIST: A System for Semantic Query Optimization in
Relational Databases. VLDB 1981: 510-517
Upen S. Chakravarthy, John Grant, Jack Minker: Logic-Based Approach to
Semantic Query Optimization. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 15(2): 162-207 (1990)
G. N. Paulley, Per-Åke Larson: Exploiting Uniqueness in Query Optimization.
ICDE 1994: 68-79
Qi Cheng, Jarek Gryz, Fred Koo, T. Y. Cliff Leung, Linqi Liu, Xiaoyan Qian, K.
Bernhard Schiefer: Implementation of Two Semantic Query Optimization
Techniques in DB2 Universal Database. VLDB 1999: 687-698
Gang Luo: Efficient Detection of Empty-Result Queries. 1015-1025 VLDB
2006
4. Recursive queries and magic sets
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François Bancilhon, David Maier, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Magic
Sets and Other Strange Ways to Implement Logic Programs. PODS 1986: 1-16
Inderpal Singh Mumick, Sheldon J. Finkelstein, Hamid Pirahesh, Raghu
Ramakrishnan: Magic is Relevant. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 247-258
Inderpal Singh Mumick, Hamid Pirahesh: Implementation of Magic-sets in a
Relational Database System. SIGMOD Conference 1994: 103-114
Praveen Seshadri, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Hamid Pirahesh, T. Y. Cliff Leung,
Raghu Ramakrishnan, Divesh Srivastava, Peter J. Stuckey, S. Sudarshan: CostBased Optimization for Magic: Algebra and Implementation. SIGMOD
Conference 1996: 435-446
Catriel Beeri, Raghu Ramakrishnan: On the Power of Magic. PODS 1987: 269283
Carlos Ordonez: Optimizing recursive queries in SQL. 834-839 Sigmod 2005
5. Rewrites using materialized views
TBA
3. Plan Optimization
1. General
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Yannis E. Ioannidis, Stavros Christodoulakis: On the Propagation of Errors in the
Size of Join Results. SIGMOD Conference 1991: 268-277
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Kristin P. Bennett, Michael C. Ferris, Yannis E. Ioannidis: A Genetic Algorithm for
Database Query Optimization. ICGA 1991: 400-407
2. Cardinality estimation
1. General
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Jeffrey F. Naughton, S. Seshadri: On Estimating the Size of Projections. ICDT 1990:
499-513
Peter J. Haas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, S. Seshadri, Arun N. Swami: Fixed-Precision
Estimation of Join Selectivity. PODS 1993: 190-201
Peter J. Haas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Arun N. Swami: On the Relative Cost of
Sampling for Join Selectivity Estimation. PODS 1994: 14-24
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Stavros Christodoulakis: On the Propagation of Errors in the
Size of Join Results. SIGMOD Conference 1991: 268-277
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis: Selectivity Estimation Without the Attribute
Value Independence Assumption. VLDB 1997: 486-495
Ihab F. Ilyas, Jun Rao, Guy M. Lohman, Dengfeng Gao, Eileen Tien Lin: Estimating
Compilation Time of a Query Optimizer. SIGMOD Conference 2003: 373-384
Ashraf Aboulnaga, Peter J. Haas, Sam Lightstone, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl,
Ivan Popivanov, Vijayshankar Raman: Automated Statistics Collection in DB2 UDB.
VLDB 2004: 1146-1157
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Charles Connell: Accurate Estimation of the Number of
Tuples Satisfying a Condition. SIGMOD Conference 1984: 256-276
Silvio Salza, Mario Terranova: Evaluating the Size of Queries on Relational
Databases with non Uniform Distribution and Stochastic Dependence. SIGMOD
Conference 1989: 8-14
Philippe Richard: Evaluation of the Size of a Query Expressed in Relational Algebra.
SIGMOD Conference 1981: 155-163
Volker Markl, Nimrod Megiddo, Marcel Kutsch, Tam Minh Tran, Peter J. Haas,
Utkarsh Srivastava: Consistently Estimating the Selectivity of Conjuncts of
Predicates. 373-384 VLDB 2005
2. Sampling
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Richard J. Lipton, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. Schneider: Practical Selectivity
Estimation through Adaptive Sampling. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 1-11
Richard J. Lipton, Jeffrey F. Naughton: Query Size Estimation by Adaptive
Sampling. PODS 1990: 40-46
Peter J. Haas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, S. Seshadri, Lynne Stokes: Sampling-Based
Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute. VLDB 1995: 311-322
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Per-Åke Larson, Wolfgang Lehner, Jingren Zhou, Peter Zabback:
Cardinality estimation using sample views with quality assurance. 175-186
Sigmod 2007
Cristian Estan, Jeffrey F. Naughton: End-biased Samples for Join Cardinality
Estimation. 20: ICDE 2006
3. Histograms
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Yannis E. Ioannidis, Stavros Christodoulakis: Optimal Histograms for Limiting
Worst-Case Error Propagation in the Size of Join Results. ACM Trans. Database
Syst. 18(4): 709-748 (1993)
Yannis E. Ioannidis: Universality of Serial Histograms. VLDB 1993: 256-267
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Viswanath Poosala: Balancing Histogram Optimality and
Practicality for Query Result Size Estimation. SIGMOD Conference 1995: 233-244
Viswanath Poosala, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Peter J. Haas, Eugene J. Shekita: Improved
Histograms for Selectivity Estimation of Range Predicates. SIGMOD Conference
1996: 294-305
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Viswanath Poosala: Histogram-Based Approximation of SetValued Query-Answers. VLDB 1999: 174-185
Yannis E. Ioannidis: The History of Histograms (abridged). VLDB 2003: 19-30
3. Optimization of individual operators
i. Join
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Arun N. Swami, Anoop Gupta: Optimization of Large Join Queries. SIGMOD
Conference 1988: 8-17
Arun N. Swami: Optimization of Large Join Queries: Combining Heuristic and
Combinatorial Techniques. SIGMOD Conference 1989: 367-376
Kiyoshi Ono, Guy M. Lohman: Measuring the Complexity of Join Enumeration
in Query Optimization. VLDB 1990: 314-325
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Younkyung Cha Kang: Randomized Algorithms for
Optimizing Large Join Queries. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 312-321
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Younkyung Cha Kang: Left-Deep vs. Bushy Trees: An
Analysis of Strategy Spaces and its Implications for Query Optimization.
SIGMOD Conference 1991: 168-177
Arjan Pellenkoft, César A. Galindo-Legaria, Martin L. Kersten: The Complexity
of Transformation-Based Join Enumeration. VLDB 1997: 306-315
Bennet Vance, David Maier: Rapid Bushy Join-order Optimization with Cartesian
Products. SIGMOD Conference 1996: 35-46
ii. Outer join
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César A. Galindo-Legaria: Outerjoins as Disjunctions. SIGMOD Conference
1994: 348-358
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César A. Galindo-Legaria, Arnon Rosenthal: Outerjoin Simplification and
Reordering for Query Optimization. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 22(1): 43-73
(1997)
Jun Rao, Bruce G. Lindsay, Guy M. Lohman, Hamid Pirahesh, David E. Simmen:
Using EELs, a Practical Approach to Outerjoin and Antijoin Reordering. ICDE
2001: 585-594
Jun Rao, Hamid Pirahesh, Calisto Zuzarte: Canonical Abstraction for Outerjoin
Optimization. SIGMOD Conference 2004: 671-682
iii. Sort and Group by
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Thomas Neumann, Guido Moerkotte: A Combined Framework for Grouping and
Order Optimization. VLDB 2004: 960-971
Thomas Neumann, Guido Moerkotte: An Efficient Framework for Order
Optimization. ICDE 2004: 461-472
Surajit Chaudhuri, Kyuseok Shim: Including Group-By in Query Optimization.
VLDB 1994: 354-366
Xiaoyu Wang, Mitch Cherniack: Avoiding Ordering and Grouping In Query
Processing. VLDB 2003: 826-837
David E. Simmen, Eugene J. Shekita, Timothy Malkemus: Fundamental
Techniques for Order Optimization. SIGMOD Conference 1996: 57-67
Weipeng P. Yan, Per-Åke Larson: Performing Group-By before Join. ICDE 1994:
89-100
iv. Functions and predicates
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Alon Y. Levy, Inderpal Singh Mumick, Yehoshua Sagiv: Query Optimization by
Predicate Move-Around. VLDB 1994: 96-107
Surajit Chaudhuri, Kyuseok Shim: Optimization of Queries with User-defined
Predicates VLDB 1996: 87-98
Surajit Chaudhuri, Kyuseok Shim: Query Optimization in the Presence of Foreign
Functions. VLDB 1993: 529-542
Joseph M. Hellerstein: Practical Predicate Placement. SIGMOD Conference 1994:
325-335
Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker: Predicate Migration: Optimizing
Queries with Expensive Predicates. SIGMOD Conference 1993: 267-276
Iosif Lazaridis, Sharad Mehrotra: Optimization of multi-version expensive
predicates. 797-808 Sigmod 2007
4. Parametric and dynamic optimization paradigms
 Goetz Graefe, Karen Ward: Dynamic Query Evaluation Plans. SIGMOD
Conference 1989: 358-366
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Gennady Antoshenkov: Dynamic Query Optimization in Rdb/VMS. ICDE 1993:
538-547
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Raymond T. Ng, Kyuseok Shim, Timos K. Sellis: Parametric
Query Optimization. VLDB 1992: 103-114
Richard L. Cole, Goetz Graefe: Optimization of Dynamic Query Evaluation
Plans. SIGMOD Conference 1994: 150-160
Amol Deshpande, Joseph M. Hellerstein: Lifting the Burden of History from
Adaptive Query Processing. VLDB 2004: 948-959
Gail Mitchell, Umeshwar Dayal, Stanley B. Zdonik: Control of an Extensible
Query Optimizer: A Planning-Based Approach. VLDB 1993: 517-528
Hongjun Lu, Kian-Lee Tan, Son Dao: The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive
Approach to Query Optimization. VLDB 1995: 251-262
Michael Stillger, Guy M. Lohman, Volker Markl, Mokhtar Kandil: LEO - DB2's
LEarning Optimizer. VLDB 2001: 19-28
Volker Markl, Vijayshankar Raman, David E. Simmen, Guy M. Lohman, Hamid
Pirahesh: Robust Query Processing through Progressive Optimization. SIGMOD
Conference 2004: 659-670
Vijayshankar Raman, Volker Markl, David E. Simmen, Guy M. Lohman, Hamid
Pirahesh: Progressive Optimization in Action. VLDB 2004: 1337-1340
Shivnath Babu, Pedro Bizarro, David J. DeWitt:
Proactive Re-optimization. Sigmod 2005: 107-118
Quanzhong Li, Minglong Shao, Volker Markl, Kevin S. Beyer, Latha S. Colby,
Guy M. Lohman: Adaptively Reordering Joins during Query Execution. 2635: ICDE 2007
5. Open source systems (is there anything new there?)
6. Future
 Brian Babcock, Surajit Chaudhuri: Towards a Robust Query Optimizer: A
Principled and Practical Approach. SIGMOD Conference 2005