1. A system for creating an access plan for a database query, the system comprising: an analytics engine; and a query optimizer including an access plan module, the access plan module comprising: an identifying module to identify a first portion of a column of a table of a database in a select statement of the database query; an estimating module to estimate, by analyzing a second portion of the column, a first statistical value for the column; and a generating module to generate, using the first statistical value for the column, the access plan to predict a characteristic of a set of results for the database query.