Evaluation and selection of file organization—a model and system
Communications of the ACM
Index selection in a self-adaptive data base management system
SIGMOD '76 Proceedings of the 1976 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Application of an analytical model to evaluate storage structures
SIGMOD '76 Proceedings of the 1976 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Selection of file organization using an analytic model
VLDB '75 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Adaptive structuring of distributed databases
AFIPS '82 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference
An overview of recent data base research
ACM SIGMIS Database
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Physical data base design, the selection of organizational structures and access mechanisms for a data base, is one of the most important responsibilities of a Data Base Administrator (DBA). A DBA often has difficulty in performing this task; he lacks the information needed to choose a design that is well matched to the data base's mode of use. This paper presents the design principles of an automatic system that has the ability to choose the physical design for a data base and to adapt this design to changing requirements. The components of such a system include: an information gathering module that collects global statistics on the overall usage pattern of the data base; a predictor that projects observed usage statistics into the future; a design evaluator that computes a figure of merit for any proposed design; and a heuristic proposer that synthesizes a small set of candidate designs for detailed consideration. These principles have been applied to the design of a system that selects secondary indices for an inverted file system.