International Business Machines Corporation

Muhammad Esaad Afaque

Daniele Costante Zilio

Kostas Rakopoulos

Xi Sun

Darren Andrew Pepper

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining a query statement; parsing the query statement and determining from the parsing that the query statement is a compound predicate query statement that includes a first predicate and a second predicate; responsively to the parsing, rewriting the obtained query statement to provide a transformed query statement, wherein the rewriting includes (a) specifying generating of a temporary table, wherein the specified generating uses data values of the first predicate and (b) specifying a join function that uses the temporary table and a table referenced in the query statement; evaluating a candidate access path associated to the transformed query statement; selecting the candidate access path as an access path for execution; and executing the transformed query statement according to the selected candidate access path for execution.

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Muhammad Esaad Afaque