Re: query optimization in different databases?

From: Bob Devine <bob.devine.NOSPAM_at_worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 01:55:51 GMT
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In article <blg64h$brq8p$1_at_ID-125932.news.uni-berlin.de>, cbbrowne_at_acm.org says...
> 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.

It's basically a cost-based optimizer with some internal pattern-matching rules.

Bob Devine
(one of the folks who wrote it) Received on Sat Oct 04 2003 - 03:55:51 CEST

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