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A Formal Analysis of Why Heuristics Work

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By formulating the problem from a Pattern Recognition perspective, PCT is used to present a mathematical, rigorous proof of this fact, and shows some uniqueness results on database query optimization techniques involving a few well-known histogram estimation methods.

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