CBO estimates three items that need to be referenced in the execution plan.

CBO estimates three items that need to be referenced in the execution plan.
Estimator

The estimator determines the overall cost of a given execution plan. The estimator generates three different types of measures to achieve this goal:

• Selecti.pdf

  This measure represents a fraction of rows from a row set. The selectivity is tied to a query predicate, suchLast_name = 'Smith', Or a combination of predicates.

• Cardinality

  This measure represents the number of rows in a row set.

• Cost

  This measure represents units of work or resource used. The query optimizer uses disk I/O, CPU usage, and memory usage as units of work.

If statistics are available, then the estimator uses them to compute the measures. The statistics improve the degree of accuracy of the measures.

The most important aspect is the above three aspects:

1. Selection degree

2. Base

3. Cost