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Is Query Optimization a “Solved” Problem?

by Guy Lohman on Apr 10, 2014 | Categories: Databases

Is Query Optimization a “solved” problem? If not, are we attacking the “right” problems? How should we identify the “right” problems to solve? I asked these same questions almost exactly 25 years ago, in an extended abstract for a Workshop on Database Query Optimization that was organized by the…