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by parshimers 267 days ago
https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dbbook/ is a great overview, specifically chapters 13 and 14 on query optimization. it is difficult to reason about though, and every compiler is different. it takes time and enough examples to look at a query and have an intuition for what the plan should look like, and if there's something the compiler is not handling well.