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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Linnette M Bakow, San Jose, CA (US);
Jean-Jacques P Daudenarde, San Jose, CA (US);
Giuseppe Facchetti, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707 10 ; 707102 ; 707103 ; 709203 ; 709217 ; 709219 ; 709223 ;
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a scalable data warehouse architecture. A query is executed in a computer to retrieve data from a database stored on a data storage device. Under control of a manager server, one of a plurality of agent servers is selected to execute the query based upon availability of each agent server and based upon connections between each agent server and a data source and a data target required for execution of the query.