TRAP: Tailored Robustness Assessment for Index Advisors via Adversarial Perturbation

Wei Zhou, Chen Lin, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Tianqing Wang. 2024. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering.

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What this paper does with SQLancer

One citation, describing TLP as a way of deriving multiple queries by partitioning the results of an original query, in a discussion of SQL generation. TRAP assesses how robust index advisors are to change, arguing these tools are evaluated mainly on static scenarios while their stability under minor workload shifts is not studied. The authors introduce perturbation-based workloads with three constraints drawn from real scenarios, formulate generating perturbed queries as a sequence-to-sequence problem, and train TRAP in an opaque-box setting. Assessing ten index advisors, they find all vulnerable to TRAP's workloads. Written by claude-opus-5 from the 1 place this paper refers to SQLancer. The quotations below are the paper's own words, stored verbatim when the text was extracted.

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uses infrastructure — no

SQLancer is cited, not used; nothing in the mentions describes reusing its code.

extends technique — no

No technique is extended; the citation is background.

compares with — no

No empirical comparison against SQLancer is reported in the mentions.

describes as state of the art — no

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SQLancer publications it cites (1)

Bibliography entries that resolved to a SQLancer publication, or to a paper by one of the project's authors. A sentence citing one of these numbers is a reference to SQLancer even when it never writes the name.

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36	M. Rigger and Z. Su, “Finding bugs in database systems via query partitioning,” Proc. ACM Program. Lang., vol. 4, no. OOPSLA, pp. 211:1–211:30, 2020.	sqlancer publication · TLP

Every place it refers to SQLancer (1)

1 sentence, each stored verbatim from the extracted text with where it was found and how. “Citation marker” means the sentence names no tool at all and was reached through a reference number that resolved to a SQLancer publication.

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M1	TLP [36] derives multiple queries by partitioning the results from the original query.	technique definition	B SQL Generation page 3

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