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Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2020
Applicant:

Snowflake Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ashish Motivala, Foster City, CA (US);

Yi Fang, Kirkland, WA (US);

Martin Hentschel, Berlin, DE;

Benoit Dageville, San Mateo, CA (US);

Spyridon Triantafyllis, San Mateo, CA (US);

Yizhi Zhu, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

Snowflake Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/278 (2019.01); G06F 16/221 (2019.01); G06F 16/245 (2019.01);
Abstract

The subject technology stores database data in a table, the table comprising a plurality of micro-partitions each having rows and columns. The subject technology stores metadata for the table in a data structure, the metadata comprising a first level of the data structure comprising a column expression property comprising information about data stored in a column of a micro-partition of the table, a micro-partition expression property comprising information about data stored in the micro-partition of the table, and a second level of the data structure comprising a grouping expression property comprising information about data stored in the micro-partition and one or more additional micro-partitions of the table.


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