Predicates that we commonly use are Equality operators (=, <>, >, <, …), BETWEEN, IN, NOT, LIKE, EXIST and many more. Do you know that there is a processing order for each predicate. That is, at what stage of the SQL Query execution, particular predicate is applied.

Predicates are applied by stage in the following order:

1. Indexable predicates that match on index key columns are applied and evaluated when the index is accessed.
2. Stage 1 index screening predicates that have not been picked as index matching predicates but still refer to index columns, are applied to the index.
3. Stage 1 page range screening predicates refer to partitioning columns are applied to limit the number of partitions that are accessed.
4. Other stage 1 predicates are applied to the data, after data page access.
5. The stage 2 predicates are applied on the returned data rows.

And list of all predicates and above information can be found at the IBM link

http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPEK_10.0.0/perf/src/tpc/db2z_summarypredicateprocessing.html

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