Query optimizers: time to rethink the contract?
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Interactive plan hints for query optimization
Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data
Automated SQL tuning through trial and (sometimes) error
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Testing Database Systems
Xplus: a SQL-tuning-aware query optimizer
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
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Commercial database systems expose query hints to address situations in which the optimizer chooses a poor plan for a given query. However, current query hints are not flexible enough to deal with a variety of non-trivial scenarios. In this paper, we introduce a hinting framework that enables the specification of rich constraints to influence the optimizer to pick better plans. We show that while our framework unifies previous approaches, it goes considerably beyond existing hinting mechanisms, and can be implemented efficiently with moderate changes to current optimizers.