Magic is relevant

  • Authors:
  • I. S. Mumick;S. J. Finkelstein;Hamid Pirahesh;Raghu Ramakrishnan

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University;Tandem Computers;IBM Almaden Research Center;University of Wisconsin at Madison

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We define the magic-sets transformation for traditional relational systems (with duplicates, aggregation and grouping), as well as for relational systems extended with recursion. We compare the magic-sets rewriting to traditional optimization techniques for nonrecursive queries, and use performance experiments to argue that the magic-sets transformation is often a better optimization technique.