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Generating Queries with Cardinality Constraints for DBMS Testing
December 2006 (vol. 18 no. 12)
pp. 1721-1725
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Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Dilys Thomas, "Generating Queries with Cardinality Constraints for DBMS Testing," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1721-1725, December, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TKDE.2006.190,
author = {Nicolas Bruno and Surajit Chaudhuri and Dilys Thomas},
title = {Generating Queries with Cardinality Constraints for DBMS Testing},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
volume = {18},
number = {12},
issn = {1041-4347},
year = {2006},
pages = {1721-1725},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2006.190},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Good testing coverage of novel database techniques, such as multidimensional histograms or changes in the execution engine, is a complex problem. In this work, we argue that this task requires generating query instances, not randomly, but based on a given set of constraints. Specifically, obtaining query instances that satisfy cardinality constraints on their subexpressions is an important challenge. We show that this problem is inherently hard, and develop heuristics that effectively find approximate solutions.

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Index Terms:
Query generation, database testing, cardinality constraints.
Citation:
Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Dilys Thomas, "Generating Queries with Cardinality Constraints for DBMS Testing," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1721-1725, Dec. 2006, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2006.190
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