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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Grace Kwan On Au, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Chi Kim Hoang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
The retrieval of data from a database in a computerized database management system is optimized through the use of an aggregate join index. The aggregate join index combines one or more commonly-used columns of the base tables with the results from one or more aggregation expressions pre-computed from one or more columns of the tables.