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Publication
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Paper
Estimating the Cost of Updates in a Relational Database
Abstract
In this paper, cost formulas are derived for the updates of data and indexes in a relational database. The costs depend on the data scan type and the predicates involved in the update statements. We show that update costs have a considerable influence, both in the context of the physical database design problem and in access path selection in query optimization for relational DBMSs. © 1985, ACM. All rights reserved.