A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO THE SELECTION OF ACCESS PATHS FOR LARGE MULTIUSER DATA BASES*
Salvatore T. March · Decision Sciences · 1983
ABSTRACT The selection of an efficient set of access paths is critical to the design of large multiuser data bases. This task is formulated as an integer, linear mathematical program, and an approach to its solution is presented. A series of experiments support the assertion that this approach is sufficient for quickly producing an efficient, if not optimal, set of access paths for data‐base problems of practical significance.