Re: query optimization in different databases?

"Hrundi V. Bakshi" <Hrundi__V__Bakshi_at_htmail.com> wrote in message news:<0SYeb.16$BX3.50_at_news.oracle.com>...
> "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote in message
> news:blg64h$brq8p$1_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, "Ryan" <rgaffuri_at_cox.net>
> belched out...:
>
> We have a saying in India: "Among all the known superstitions of the world,
> and you do not find in any particular superstition one redeeming feature.
> They are all alike founded on fables and mythology"
>
> > I'm not sure what strategy Microsoft has taken when they rewrote
> > Sybase's codebase, whether they are rule-based or cost-based. MySQL
> > does rule-based optimization, pointing back to '80s technology.
>
> Microsoft recruited the best people in the field, so the quality of their
> optimizer must match.

Where did you develop this perverse superstition? Received on Mon Oct 06 2003 - 00:12:06 CEST