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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 13, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gautam Bhargava, Cupertino, CA (US);
Paramesh Sampatrai Desai, San Jose, CA (US);
Piyush Goel, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Peter Hoa, Los Altos, CA (US);
Fen-Ling Lin, San Jose, CA (US);
Balakrishna Raghavendra Iyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Jerry Mukai, San Jose, CA (US);
William Samuel Perlman, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong Sang Tie, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707-2 ; 707-1 ; 707-3 ; 707-4 ; 707-6 ; 707-7 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating static, dynamic and hybrid sparse indices for use with workfiles used by SQL queries in a relational database management system.