Query Graphs, Implementing Trees, and Freely-Reorderable Outerjoins. - Arnon Rosenthal; César A. Galindo-Legaria (SIGMOD Conference, 1990)

How to Extend a Conventional Optimizer to Handle One- and Two-Sided Outerjoin. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Arnon Rosenthal (ICDE, 1992)

Outerjoins as Disjunctions. - César A. Galindo-Legaria (SIGMOD Conference, 1994)

Fast, Randomized Join-Order Selection - Why Use Transformations? - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Arjan Pellenkoft; Martin L. Kersten (VLDB, 1994)

Uniformly-Distributed Random Generation of Join Orders. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Arjan Pellenkoft; Martin L. Kersten (ICDT, 1995)

Database De-Centralization - A Practical Approach. - Tor Didriksen; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Eirik Dahle (VLDB, 1995)

Duplicate-Free Generation of Alternatives in Transformation-Based Optimizers. - Arjan Pellenkoft; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Martin L. Kersten (DASFAA, 1997)

The Complexity of Transformation-Based Join Enumeration. - Arjan Pellenkoft; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Martin L. Kersten (VLDB, 1997)

Outerjoin Simplification and Reordering for Query Optimization. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Arnon Rosenthal (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 1997)

Counting, Enumerating, and Sampling of Execution Plans in a Cost-Based Query Optimizer. - Florian Waas; César A. Galindo-Legaria (SIGMOD Conference, 2000)

Microsoft SQL Server (Chapter 27) - Sameet Agarwal; José A. Blakeley; Thomas Casey; Kalen Delaney; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Goetz Graefe; Michael Rys; Michael J. Zwilling (Database System Concepts, 4th Edition., 2001)

Orthogonal Optimization of Subqueries and Aggregation. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Milind Joshi (SIGMOD Conference, 2001)

SIGMOD 2001 Industry Sessions. - Guy M. Lohman; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Michael J. Franklin; Leonard J. Seligman (SIGMOD Rec., 2001)

The Effect Of Cost Distributions On Evolutionary Optimization Algorithms. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Florian Waas (GECCO, 2002)

Statistics on Views. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Milind Joshi; Florian Waas; Ming-Chuan Wu (VLDB, 2003)

Query Processing for SQL Updates. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Stefano Stefani; Florian Waas (SIGMOD Conference, 2004)

PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS. - Conor Cunningham; Goetz Graefe; César A. Galindo-Legaria (VLDB, 2004)

Database Change Notifications: Primitives for Efficient Database Query Result Caching. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Torsten Grabs; Christian Kleinerman; Florian Waas (VLDB, 2005)

Optimizing Similar Scalar Subqueries for XML Processing in Microsoft SQL Server. - Adrian Baras; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Torsten Grabs; Babu Krishnaswamy; Shankar Pal (ICDE, 2007)

Execution strategies for SQL subqueries. - Mostafa Elhemali; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Torsten Grabs; Milind Joshi (SIGMOD Conference, 2007)

Filtered Indices and Their Use in Flexible Schema Scenarios. - Srini Acharya; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Milind Joshi; Babu Krishnaswamy; Stefano Stefani; Pawel Terlecki (ICDE, 2008)

Optimizing Star Join Queries for Data Warehousing in Microsoft SQL Server. - César A. Galindo-Legaria; Torsten Grabs; Sreenivas Gukal; Steve Herbert; Aleksandras Surna; Shirley Wang; Wei Yu; Peter Zabback; Shin Zhang (ICDE, 2008)

Testing SQL Server's Query Optimizer: Challenges, Techniques and Experiences. - Leo Giakoumakis; César A. Galindo-Legaria (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2008)

Relational support for flexible schema scenarios. - Srini Acharya; Peter Carlin; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Krzysztof Kozielczyk; Pawel Terlecki; Peter Zabback (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2008)

Filtered statistics. - Pawel Terlecki; Hardik Bati; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Peter Zabback (SIGMOD Conference, 2009)

Polynomial heuristics for query optimization. - Nicolas Bruno; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Milind Joshi (ICDE, 2010)

Microsoft SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse: Architecture Overview. - José A. Blakeley; Paul A. Dyke; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Nicole James; Christian Kleinerman; Matt Peebles; Richard Tkachuk; Vaughn Washington (BIRTE, 2011)

Query optimization in microsoft SQL server PDW. - Srinath Shankar; Rimma V. Nehme; Josep Aguilar-Saborit; Andrew Chung; Mostafa Elhemali; Alan Halverson; Eric Robinson; Mahadevan Sankara Subramanian; David J. DeWitt; César A. Galindo-Legaria (SIGMOD Conference, 2012)

Taking the Edge off Cardinality Estimation Errors using Incremental Execution. - Thomas Neumann 001; César A. Galindo-Legaria (BTW, 2013)

Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database. - Karthik Ramachandra 002; Kwanghyun Park 001; K. Venkatesh Emani; Alan Halverson; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Conor Cunningham (CoRR, 2017)

Froid: Optimization of Imperative Programs in a Relational Database. - Karthik Ramachandra 002; Kwanghyun Park 001; K. Venkatesh Emani; Alan Halverson; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Conor Cunningham (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2017)

Hyperspace: The Indexing Subsystem of Azure Synapse. - Rahul Potharaju; Terry Kim; Eunjin Song; Wentao Wu 001; Lev Novik; Apoorve Dave; Pouria Pirzadeh; Andrew Fogarty; Gurleen Dhody; Jiying Li; Vidip Acharya; Sinduja Ramanujam; et al. (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2021)

Unified Query Optimization in the Fabric Data Warehouse. - Nicolas Bruno; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Milind Joshi; Esteban Calvo Vargas; Kabita Mahapatra; Sharon Ravindran; Guoheng Chen; Ernesto Cervantes Juárez; Beysim Sezgin (SIGMOD Conference Companion, 2024)

Towards Query Optimizer as a Service (QOaaS) in a Unified LakeHouse Ecosystem: Can One QO Rule Them All? - Rana Alotaibi; Yuanyuan Tian 001; Stefan Grafberger; Jesús Camacho-Rodríguez; Nicolas Bruno; Brian Kroth; Sergiy Matusevych; Ashvin Agrawal; Mahesh Behera; Ashit Gosalia; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Milind Joshi; et al. (CoRR, 2024)

Query Decorrelation in the Fabric Data Warehouse. - Nicolas Bruno; César A. Galindo-Legaria; Milind Joshi (SIGMOD Conference Companion, 2025)