3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the condition for a predicate is specified by an operator and the respective predicate value.
1. A method of executing a database query comprising: generating one or more predicates based on implicit filtering present within the database query, wherein each of the one or more predicates specifies a condition with respect to a respective predicate value; selecting an access path for the database query based on the one or more predicates and integrating the one or more predicates within the selected access plan; executing a set number of operations of the database query in accordance with the selected access plan; and repeatedly updating the respective predicate value of at least one predicate of the one or more predicates based on data accessed, wherein the updating increases filtering of data, and executing the database query until the filtering of the data cannot be improved by an updated predicate value.