At 08:40 AM 10/29/2001 -0500, Jim Starkey wrote:

>....
>The optimizer isn't that hard to understand. It takes a bunch
>of streams, permutes the orders while estimating cost (projecting
>cost to prune the tree), then optimizes the resulting join order.
>Just a little C code. It doesn't bite.

I'm not the only one bearing tooth-marks that tend to argue
otherwise.


Regards,

Ann
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