This book offers valuable insights on well-established principles and cutting-edge research results in automated physical design. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of how automated tuning tools work in database installations as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in designing next-generation tuning tools. After introducing the necessary technical background, the author discusses automated physical design techniques, covering fundamental research ideas in the last 15 years that have resulted in a new generation of tuning tools. He also explores new advances in automated physical design.…mehr
This book offers valuable insights on well-established principles and cutting-edge research results in automated physical design. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of how automated tuning tools work in database installations as well as the challenges and opportunities involved in designing next-generation tuning tools. After introducing the necessary technical background, the author discusses automated physical design techniques, covering fundamental research ideas in the last 15 years that have resulted in a new generation of tuning tools. He also explores new advances in automated physical design.
Nicolas Bruno is a researcher in the Data Management, Exploration and Mining group at Microsoft Research. He earned his Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University. Dr. Bruno's research interests include physical database design, query processing and optimization, and database testing.
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BACKGROUND: Declarative Query Processing in Relational Database Systems. Query Optimization in Relational Database Systems. Physical Database Design. AUTOMATED PHYSICAL DATABASE DESIGN: Characterizing the Search Space. Designing a Cost Model. Enumerating the Search Space. Practical Aspects in Physical Database Design. ADVANCED TOPICS: Handling Materialized Views. Incorporating Other Physical Structures. Continuous Physical Database Design. Constrained Physical Database Design. New Challenges in Physical Database Design. Index.