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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1997
John Marland Garth, Gilroy, CA (US);
Koshy John, Fremont, CA (US);
James Alan Ruddy, Gilroy, CA (US);
David Ray Schwartz, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Bryan Frederick Smith, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A multiprocessing system forms a data structure, such as by loading reorganizing, or recovering, while concurrently collecting various statistics about the data structure. The data structure may comprise tables and/or indices, for example. A first processing unit forms the data structure by assimilating data from one or more data sources into data rows, storing the rows in a buffer, and copying the rows from the buffer to the data structure. Concurrently with the forming step, the same or a second processing unit retrieves the rows from the buffer and applies a predetermined analysis to the rows to formulate statistics regarding the data structure.