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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 17, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey H. Derby, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Robert Kevin Montoye, Rochester, MN (US);

Dheeraj Sreedhar, Bangalore, IN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 9/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3033 (2013.01); G06F 9/30032 (2013.01); G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 17/30097 (2013.01); G06F 17/30595 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and arrangements for joining data sets. There are accepted: a first data set which forms a table in a relational database, and a second data set which forms a table in a relational database, each of the first and second data sets comprising a key value. Each of the first and second data sets is hashed based on the key value, and are thereupon sorted based on the key value. The sorted first and second data sets are joined with one another based on the key value. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.


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