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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1996
Chaitanya Baru, San Jose, CA (US);
Gilles Fecteau, Toronto, CA;
Jo-Anne Kirton, Richmond Hill, CA;
Lubor J Kollar, North York, CA;
Fred Koo, North York, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for distributing data of a table across a parallel data base system having a plurality of interlinked database nodes. The table is partitioned in accordance with a predetermined partitioning arrangement and data of the table is distributed across a subset of the nodes in accordance with the partitioning arrangement. The partitioning arrangement can comprise horizontal or vertical partitioning. The partitioning arrangement can comprise a partitioning map defining the relationship of partitions of the table to said subset of nodes.