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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2000
Sam S. Lightstone, Toronto, CA;
Catherine S. Mcarthur, Uxbridge, CA;
William T. O'connell, Markham, CA;
Miroslaw A. Flasza, Toronto, CA;
Sam S. Lightstone, Toronto, CA;
Catherine S. McArthur, Uxbridge, CA;
William T. O'Connell, Markham, CA;
Miroslaw A. Flasza, Toronto, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer system for the indexing of data in which a heuristic determination function is applied to predict an efficient index updating approach. The system is able to update an index relating to a first data set by incrementally updating the index or by a rebuild of the index at the completion of the addition of a second set of data to the first set of data. The system applies a heuristic determination function to the characteristics of the first set of data, its index, and the second set of data, to predict whether an incremental update or a rebuild update of the index will result in a more efficient rebuild of the data. The system applies this approach to a restore and rollforward recovery or a data load operation to improve the efficiency of these operations.