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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2000
Tanya Couch, San Jose, CA (US);
Catherine Elizabeth Wuebker Drummond, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Virginia Walbridge Hughes, Jr., Hollister, CA (US);
Theresa Hsing Lai, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joseph Davis Lea, III, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
David Harold Oberstadt, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for filtering an explain table according to at least one user-defined filter includes a memory device having thereon modules of operational data and executable code for execution by the processor. The modules include a filter generation module configured to receive user-specified filtering criteria directed to data within a selected column of the explain table and generate in response a user-defined filter. The modules also include a table filtering module configured to apply the user-defined filter to the explain table to selectively exclude rows of the explain table not satisfying the filtering criteria of the user-defined filter.