DATABASE QUERY OPTIMIZER FRAMEWORK WITH DYNAMIC STRATEGY DISPATCH

An apparatus, program product and method utilize a query optimizer that relies upon a plurality of dynamically-dispatchable active strategy entities to generate an optimized execution plan for a database query. The plurality of active strategy entities form a optimizer framework from which the knowledge available to the optimizer, and the intelligence utilized by the optimizer in generating execution plans, may be represented in a structured, flexible, extensible and easily-modifiable manner.