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Access path selection in a relational database management system

Selinger, P. Griffiths, Astrahan, M. M., Chamberlin, D. D., Lorie, R. A., Price, T. G.·1979·Proceedings of the 1979 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '79
DOI 10.1145/582095.582099
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In a high level query and data manipulation language such as SQL, requests are stated non-procedurally, without reference to access paths. This paper describes how System R chooses access paths for both simple (single relation) and complex queries (such as joins), given a user specification of desired data as a boolean expression of predicates. System R is an experimental database management system developed to carry out research on the relational model of data. System R was designed and built by members of the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory.

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Authors
Selinger, P. G., Astrahan, M. M., Chamberlin, D. D., Lorie, R. A., & Price, T. G.
Venue
Proceedings of the 1979 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '79
Publisher
ACM Press
Published
1979
Pages
23
ISSN
0730-8078 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1145/582095.582099
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Selinger, P. G., Astrahan, M. M., Chamberlin, D. D., Lorie, R. A., & Price, T. G. (1979). Access path selection in a relational database management system. Proceedings of the 1979 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '79. https://doi.org/10.1145/582095.582099

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