Cost-Based Oracle Fundamentals - Lewis, Jonathan; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2006)
What Do You Mean by Cost? -- Tablescans -- Single Table Selectivity -- Simple B-tree Access -- The Clustering Factor -- Selectivity Issues -- Histograms -- Bitmap Indexes -- Query Transformation -- Join Cardinality -- Nested Loops -- Hash Joins -- Sorting and Merge Joins -- The 10053 Trace File.
Keywords: Database management; Software engineering; Database Management; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems