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Query rewrite transforms SQL queries into semantically equivalent forms that run more efficiently. Existing approaches mainly rely on predefined rewrite rules, but they handle a limited subset of queries and can cause performance…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yuyang Song , Hanxu Yan , Jiale Lao , Yibo Wang , Yufei Li , Yuanchun Zhou , Jianguo Wang , Mingjie Tang

Query rewrite, which aims to generate more efficient queries by altering a SQL query's structure without changing the query result, has been an important research problem. In order to maintain equivalence between the rewritten query and the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zhaodonghui Li , Haitao Yuan , Huiming Wang , Gao Cong , Lidong Bing

With this work, we describe the concept of intent-based query rewriting and present a first viable solution. The aim is to allow rewrites to alter the structure and syntactic outcome of an original query while keeping the obtainable…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Gianna Lisa Nicolai , Patrick Hansert , Sebastian Michel

Multi-turn RAG systems often face queries with colloquial omissions and ambiguous references, posing significant challenges for effective retrieval and generation. Traditional query rewriting relies on human annotators to clarify queries,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 JiaYing Zheng , HaiNan Zhang , Liang Pang , YongXin Tong , ZhiMing Zheng

The query optimizer in a Database Management Systems (DBMS), translates declarative queries into efficient execution plans. Conventional bottom-up optimization consists of two main stages: Query Rewrite (QRW) and Cost-Based Optimization…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Qi Cheng , Yang Sun , Weidong Yu , Danny Chen , Weicheng Wang , Chong Chen , Per-Ake Larson

Query rewriting is an effective technique for refining poorly written queries before they reach the query optimizer. However, manual rewriting is not scalable, as it is prone to errors and requires deep expertise. Traditional query…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jie Liu , Barzan Mozafari

SQL query rewriting aims to reformulate a query into a more efficient form while preserving equivalence. Most existing methods rely on predefined rewrite rules. However, such rule-based approaches face fundamental limitations: (1) fixed…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Dongjie Xu , Yue Cui , Weijie Shi , Qingzhi Ma , Hanghui Guo , Jiaming Li , Yao Zhao , Ruiyuan Zhang , Shimin Di , Jia Zhu , Kai Zheng , Jiajie Xu

Query optimization remains one of the most important and well-studied problems in database systems. However, traditional query optimizers are complex heuristically-driven systems, requiring large amounts of time to tune for a particular…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-19 Ryan Marcus , Olga Papaemmanouil

Query optimization is a hallmark of database systems enabling complex SQL queries of today's applications to be run efficiently. The query optimizer often fails to find the best plan, when logical subtleties in business queries and schemas…

Traditionally, query optimizers have been designed for computer systems that share a common architecture, consisting of a CPU, main memory and disk subsystem. The efficiency of query optimizers and their successful employment relied on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-03-03 K. F. D. Rietveld , H. A. G. Wijshoff

Conversational assistants often require a question rewriting algorithm that leverages a subset of past interactions to provide a more meaningful (accurate) answer to the user's question or request. However, the exact rewriting approach may…

Query rewrite is essential for optimizing SQL queries to improve their execution efficiency without changing their results. Traditionally, this task has been tackled through heuristic and learning-based methods, each with its limitations in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Zhaoyan Sun , Xuanhe Zhou , Guoliang Li , Xiang Yu , Jianhua Feng , Yong Zhang

Query rewriting plays a vital role in enhancing conversational search by transforming context-dependent user queries into standalone forms. Existing approaches primarily leverage human-rewritten queries as labels to train query rewriting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fanghua Ye , Meng Fang , Shenghui Li , Emine Yilmaz

In video search systems, user historical behaviors provide rich context for identifying search intent and resolving ambiguity. However, traditional methods utilizing implicit history features often suffer from signal dilution and delayed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Cheng cheng , Chenxing Wang , Aolin Li , Haijun Wu , Huiyun Hu , Juyuan Wang

Query rewriting, the process of transforming queries into semantically equivalent yet more efficient variants, is crucial for database optimization. Existing solutions predominantly rely on either rule-based heuristics or Large Language…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jiahui Li , Tongwang Wu , Yuren Mao , Rong Kang , Tieying Zhang , Yunjun Gao

While there are known performance trade-offs between database page buffer pool and query execution memory allocation policies, little has been written on the impact of query compilation memory use on overall throughput of the database…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Boris Baryshnikov , Cipri Clinciu , Conor Cunningham , Leo Giakoumakis , Slava Oks , Stefano Stefani

Recent advances in query optimization have shifted from traditional rule-based and cost-based techniques towards machine learning-driven approaches. Among these, reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted significant attention due to its…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Seokwon Lee , Jaeyoung Sim , Sihyun Kim , Yuhsing Li , Yiwen Zhu , Kwanghyun Park

Existing Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) solutions have made significant advancements, yet challenges persist in interpreting and translating NL queries, primarily due to users' limited understanding of database schemas or memory biases…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Peixian Ma , Boyan Li , Runzhi Jiang , Ju Fan , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

Context modeling plays a critical role in building multi-turn dialogue systems. Conversational Query Rewriting (CQR) aims to simplify the multi-turn dialogue modeling into a single-turn problem by explicitly rewriting the conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Hang Liu , Meng Chen , Youzheng Wu , Xiaodong He , Bowen Zhou

For e-commerce search, user experience is measured by users' behavioral responses to returned products, like click-through rate and conversion rate, as well as the relevance between returned products and search queries. Consequently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Aijun Dai , Jixiang Zhang , Haiqing Hu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Ziguang Cheng
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