JOIN Elimination: An Essential Optimiser Feature for Advanced SQL Usage

The SQL language has one great advantage over procedural, object oriented, and "ordinary" functional programming languages. The fact that it is truly declarative (i.e. a 4GL / fourth generation programming language) means that a sophisticated optimiser can easily transform one SQL expression into another, equivalent SQL expression, which might be faster to execute. How does … Continue reading JOIN Elimination: An Essential Optimiser Feature for Advanced SQL Usage