STHoles: A Multidimensional Workload-Aware Histogram. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Luis Gravano (SIGMOD Conference, 2001)

Evaluating Top-k Queries over Web-Accessible Databases. - Nicolas Bruno; Luis Gravano; Amélie Marian (ICDE, 2002)

Exploiting statistics on query expressions for optimization. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (SIGMOD Conference, 2002)

Holistic twig joins: optimal XML pattern matching. - Nicolas Bruno; Nick Koudas; Divesh Srivastava (SIGMOD Conference, 2002)

Top-k selection queries over relational databases: Mapping strategies and performance evaluation. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Luis Gravano (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2002)

Efficient Creation of Statistics over Query Expressions. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (ICDE, 2003)

Navigation- vs. Index-Based XML Multi-Query Processing. - Nicolas Bruno; Luis Gravano; Nick Koudas; Divesh Srivastava (ICDE, 2003)

Conditional Selectivity for Statistics on Query Expressions. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (SIGMOD Conference, 2004)

Evaluating top-k queries over web-accessible databases. - Amélie Marian; Nicolas Bruno; Luis Gravano (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2004)

Automatic Physical Database Tuning: A Relaxation-based Approach. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (SIGMOD Conference, 2005)

Flexible Database Generators. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (VLDB, 2005)

XML & Data Streams. - Nicolas Bruno; Luis Gravano; Nick Koudas; Divesh Srivastava (Stream Data Management, 2005)

To Tune or not to Tune? A Lightweight Physical Design Alerter. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (VLDB, 2006)

AutoAdmin: Self-Tuning Database SystemsTechnology. - Sanjay Agrawal 001; Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Vivek R. Narasayya (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2006)

Generating Queries with Cardinality Constraints for DBMS Testing. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Dilys Thomas (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2006)

An Online Approach to Physical Design Tuning. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (ICDE, 2007)

Online autoadmin: (physical design tuning). - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (SIGMOD Conference, 2007)

A critical look at the TAB benchmark for physical design tools. - Nicolas Bruno (SIGMOD Rec., 2007)

The Threshold Algorithm: From Middleware Systems to the Relational Engine. - Nicolas Bruno; Wendy Hui Wang (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2007)

Physical design refinement: The 'merge-reduce' approach. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (ACM Trans. Database Syst., 2007)

Towards Declarative Queries on Adaptive Data Structures. - Nicolas Bruno; Pablo Castro (ICDE, 2008)

Configuration-parametric query optimization for physical design tuning. - Nicolas Bruno; Rimma V. Nehme (SIGMOD Conference, 2008)

Constrained physical design tuning. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2008)

Teaching an Old Elephant New Tricks. - Nicolas Bruno (CIDR, 2009)

Power Hints for Query Optimization. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Ravishankar Ramamurthy (ICDE, 2009)

Interactive plan hints for query optimization. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Ravishankar Ramamurthy (SIGMOD Conference, 2009)

Finding min-repros in database software. - Nicolas Bruno; Rimma V. Nehme (DBTest, 2009)

Progressive Parametric Query Optimization. - Pedro Bizarro; Nicolas Bruno; David J. DeWitt (IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng., 2009)

Database Tuning using Online Algorithms. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Gerhard Weikum (Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 2009)

Minimizing database repros using language grammars. - Nicolas Bruno (EDBT, 2010)

Interactive physical design tuning. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri (ICDE, 2010)

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

Mini-Me: A min-repro system for database software. - Nicolas Bruno; Rimma V. Nehme (ICDE, 2010)

Slicing Long-Running Queries. - Nicolas Bruno; Vivek R. Narasayya; Ravishankar Ramamurthy (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2010)

Automated Physical Database Design and Tuning. - Nicolas Bruno (CRC Press, 2011)

FlexMin: a flexible tool for automatic bug isolation in DBMS software. - Kristi Morton; Nicolas Bruno (DBTest, 2011)

Automated partitioning design in parallel database systems. - Rimma V. Nehme; Nicolas Bruno (SIGMOD Conference, 2011)

AutoAdmin Project at Microsoft Research: Lessons Learned. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Arnd Christian König; Vivek R. Narasayya; Ravishankar Ramamurthy; Manoj Syamala (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2011)

Reoptimizing Data Parallel Computing. - Sameer Agarwal 002; Srikanth Kandula; Nicolas Bruno; Ming-Chuan Wu; Ion Stoica; Jingren Zhou 001 (NSDI, 2012)

Recurring job optimization in scope. - Nicolas Bruno; Sameer Agarwal 002; Srikanth Kandula; Bing Shi; Ming-Chuan Wu; Jingren Zhou 001 (SIGMOD Conference, 2012)

Scope playback: self-validation in the cloud. - Ming-Chuan Wu; Jingren Zhou 001; Nicolas Bruno; Yu Zhang; Jon Fowler (DBTest, 2012)

Advanced partitioning techniques for massively distributed computation. - Jingren Zhou 001; Nicolas Bruno; Wei Lin 016 (SIGMOD Conference, 2012)

SCOPE: parallel databases meet MapReduce. - Jingren Zhou 001; Nicolas Bruno; Ming-Chuan Wu; Per-Åke Larson; Ronnie Chaiken; Darren Shakib (VLDB J., 2012)

Recurring Job Optimization for Massively Distributed Query Processing. - Nicolas Bruno; Sapna Jain; Jingren Zhou 001 (IEEE Data Eng. Bull., 2013)

Continuous Cloud-Scale Query Optimization and Processing. - Nicolas Bruno; Sapna Jain; Jingren Zhou 001 (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2013)

Query Optimization. - Nicolas Bruno (Computing Handbook, 3rd ed. (2), 2014)

Advanced Join Strategies for Large-Scale Distributed Computation. - Nicolas Bruno; YongChul Kwon; Ming-Chuan Wu (Proc. VLDB Endow., 2014)

Spanner: Becoming a SQL System. - David F. Bacon; Nathan Bales; Nicolas Bruno; Brian F. Cooper; Adam Dickinson; Andrew Fikes; Campbell Fraser; Andrey Gubarev; Milind Joshi; Eugene Kogan; Alexander Lloyd; Sergey Melnik 001; et al. (SIGMOD Conference, 2017)

Database Tuning Using Online Algorithms. - Nicolas Bruno; Surajit Chaudhuri; Gerhard Weikum (Encyclopedia of Database Systems (2nd ed.), 2018)

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)

Computation Reuse via Fusion in Amazon Athena. - Nicolas Bruno; Johnny Debrodt; Chujun Song; Wei Zheng (ICDE, 2022)

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)