CPSC 504: Query Optimization.

Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, September 2011.

• Surajit Chaudhuri: An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems. PODS 1998: 34-43. – Good survey of QO research as of 1998.
• P. Selinger, M. Astrahan, D. Chamberlin, R. Lorie, T. Price. Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System. SIGMOD 1979. – Forerunner of almost all modern QOzers and a good model for most of them.