leff@smu.UUCP (11/25/83)
#N:smu:18800002:000:553 smu!leff Nov 24 11:57:00 1983 Does anybody have some references on algorithms, AI techniques that have been used to optimize the decomposition and selection of indexes for a database. I. E. given a list of attributes and functional dependencies, a list of queries and updates to be performed on them, how often those queries occur and how many items are to be expected of each type determine an appropriate decomposition such as to minimize or at least get reasonably low the total time for performing all the queries. or any reasonable variation thereon? Leff parsec!smu!leff