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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ting Yu Leung, San Jose, CA (US);
Mir Hamid Pirahesh, San Jose, CA (US);
David E. Simmen, San Jose, CA (US);
Tuong Chanh Truong, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/730 ;
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for optimizing database queries. The query is analyzed to determine whether at least a portion of the query can be evaluated using a plurality of parallel operations without data redistribution. If so, then the most efficient query execution plan that uses these parallel operations is constructed and executed.