Increasing the Accuracy and Coverage of SQL Progress Indicators

  • Authors:
  • Gang Luo;Jeffrey F. Naughton;Curt J. Ellmann;Michael W. Watzke

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center;University of Wisconsin-Madison;University of Wisconsin-Madison;NCR

  • Venue:
  • ICDE '05 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Recently, progress indicators have been proposed for long-running SQL queries in RDBMSs. Although the proposed techniques work well for a subset of SQL queries, they are preliminary in the sense that (1) they cannot provide non-trivial estimates for some SQL queries, and (2) the provided estimates can be rather imprecise in certain cases. In this paper, we consider the problem of supporting non-trivial progress indicators for a wider class of SQL queries with more precise estimates. We present a set of techniques in achieving this goal. We report an initial implementation of these techniques in PostgreSQL.