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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1990
Josephine M Cheng, San Jose, CA (US);
Donald J Haderle, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Richard W Hedges, Mississauga, CA;
Balakrishna R Iyer, Fremont, CA (US);
Chandrasekaran Mohan, San Jose, CA (US);
Yun Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Results of a relational data base management system are joined in a process requiring, first, existence of an index on the join columns of the inner table, and, second, ordering on the join column of the first table. First, the index on the inner table's join column is scanned for rows of the inner table having join column values matching such values of rows in the outer table. This is done in a single pass through the outer table. Next, a temporary work table containing the identifiers of inner table rows having join column values matching those of the outer table is produced by concatenating the row identifiers to their matching outer table rows. Following this, the temporary work table is ordered by the identifiers. Last, the identifier list of inner table rows is used to retrieve the corresponding rows of the inner table. All predicates local to the inner table are applied to the retrieved rows, and those satisfying these local predicates are combined with their matching outer table rows and returned to the user.