Optimization is essential in generating a suitable access plan for a query. Once each query is parsed, the optimizer analyzes it and decides on an access plan that computes the result using as few resources as possible. Optimization begins just before execution. If you are using cursors in your application, optimization commences when the cursor is opened. Unlike many other commercial database systems, SQL Anywhere usually optimizes each statement just before executing it. Because SQL Anywhere performs just-in-time optimization of each statement, the optimizer has access to the values of host and stored procedure variables, which allows for better selectivity estimation analysis. In addition, just-in-time optimization allows the optimizer to adjust its choices based on the statistics saved after previous query executions.