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TPC-H Query 10 - Histograms and Functional Dependency

Welcome back to the TPC-H series, dear reader. And happy holidays to those of you who've already shut down.

In today's educational blog, I'm going to teach you about:

  • The importance of histograms
  • When not to do bushy joins
  • Functional dependencies and how they speed up queries
  • Bloom filters

This is a lot of ground to cover in the around 5-15 minutes I have your attention. Every deep dive starts at the surface — let us jump into the deep sea.

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