CHAPTER 12
Final State Optimization
When I introduced the CBO in Chapter 2 I explained that the CBO followed two processes to come up with an execution plan for the runtime engine: query transformation and final state optimization. In this chapter I will cover final state optimization, and transformations will be the focus of Chapter 13. Put another way, this chapter looks at how the CBO evaluates different candidate execution plans after any query transformations have been performed.
In Chapters 10 and 11 I covered the mechanics of accessing and joining the row sources specified in a query. In this chapter I will provide a high-level overview ...
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