Bringing Theory to Industry: Early-Career Lessons in Query Optimization

Speaker:

Hangdong Zhao

System:

Microsoft SQL Server

What does it really take to bring new ideas into a production system? In this talk, I will share some experiences from my first year working on query optimization at Microsoft Azure. I will recount the story of how we discovered that Microsoft SQL Server had, in effect, been executing the Yannakakis algorithm for decades—despite its only recent resurgence in... Read More