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Query Parsing

Query processing refers to the internal transformation of user queries into a system-specific language via parsing, translation and optimization before actual execution to provide results.

As soon as a query is submitted by a user, it first undergoes parsing phase – this step ensures that its syntax is correct; any queries with errors such as missing FROM statement would result in an error being returned by this phase. Furthermore, parsing also identifies columns used within the query and determines how tables can be joined together.

Once the parser has converted a query into relational algebra, it can analyze its results to optimize them for performance. It considers such factors as table count, availability of indexes for these tables, type and usage of expressions employed as well as any hints given, among many others.

Uber engineers developed an additional step in the parsing process in order to optimize this process even further, known as soft parsing. This additional step enables the parser to search information from a database’s information schema in order to resolve issues such as obscure column names. Once this data has been acquired it can then be added into the parse tree for easy query optimization – thus creating the fastest result set possible – making the parser even more efficient than before.

Query Optimization

Query optimization or planning refers to the practice of determining how an SQL statement will be executed. Since a query can be executed using various data-structures and order of operations, optimizing is key in collecting necessary information from databases quickly and returning it back to users quickly.

The optimizer begins its analysis by parsing and breaking down a parsed representation of a query into its constituent query blocks, each representing one SELECT statement from its original SQL version. Next, it records all possible access paths leading to each block and calculates an estimate cost or effort using disk I/O usage, CPU utilization and memory utilization as measures of effort.

Estimating Cardinality The next step of plan evaluation is estimating cardinality. This involves analyzing a query and considering all of the ways relational algebra could be applied to achieve desired results; for example, an optimization program might try various access paths, sort orders, and joining methods that might produce this result.

Query Execution

Execution, or how the SQL query is conducted, takes the plan chosen and compiles it into low-level procedures that the database engine can follow to insert, retrieve, join, aggregate and sort data as requested by the query. As it executes its plan it performs table scans, index lookups, network transfers and sort operations before producing its final result set.

At the query execution stage, database engines may execute subqueries as part of their plan. Before being executed, these subqueries may be evaluated to see whether rewriting or indexing may help increase performance.

The database management system must also evaluate the logical order of query clauses, determining the most efficient means of accessing and manipulating their results – this may involve predicate pushdown to reduce data scanning, running aggregate functions to generate summary results, joining operations such as joins or performing join operations to generate summary results or sorting according to an ORDER BY clause. It may also manage transactions as necessary and release resources used by connections.

Dremio allows users to visualize, understand and optimize query plans within their data lakehouse platform – seamlessly incorporating them into their query workflow alongside other exploration and analysis features.

Query Evaluation

Evaluation is a vital step in query processing and execution, used to select appropriate algorithms for use with each query. There are two major approaches to query evaluation – heuristic optimization and cost-based optimization; most query optimizers combine both techniques into their algorithms.

At this phase, the system translates a query into relational algebra expressions and then annotates those expressions with commands used to specify and evaluate operations. As a result of this process, a query program (sometimes referred to as an access plan) is produced; this program contains instructions telling DBMS how to extract data from tables while also being evaluated against query and determined an optimal solution.

Example queries that contain multiple joins and tables can be difficult to evaluate using current heuristic query optimization techniques, since they do not take into account structural properties like acyclicity and width considerations. Structural-guided query evaluation has the ability to drastically cut compiling time compared to standard evaluation techniques.

Power Query’s query folding mechanism optimizes M scripts by determining which steps (transforms) from your query can be offloaded to your data source, saving Power Query time in interpreting and evaluating these steps in its engine.