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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005

Filed:

Feb. 29, 2000
Applicants:

John M. Quernemoen, New Brighton, MN (US);

Mark G. Hazzard, Forest Lake, MN (US);

Inventors:

John M. Quernemoen, New Brighton, MN (US);

Mark G. Hazzard, Forest Lake, MN (US);

Assignee:

Unisys Corporation, Blue Bell, PA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F017/30 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for calculating and recalculating hardware requirements for a database management system computer. One method includes establishing default values for hardware utilization limits such as percent utilization of processors or network interface cards. Working copies of the hardware utilization limits can be initialized to the default utilization limits. Workload requirements can be obtained from a human user. In one method, the workload requirements are obtained as transactions per second value. In another embodiment, the workload requirements are obtained as a detailed list of transactions, expected execution rate of those transactions, and the composition of those transactions, including SQL statement type and parameters upon which those statements operate. The hardware requirements are then calculated so as to be within the hardware utilization limits, and can include discrete numbers of required hardware components such as processors and network interface cards.


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