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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:
Dec. 26, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2001
Applicants:
Douglas P. Brown, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark W. Sirek, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeetendra Chaware, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Inventors:
Douglas P. Brown, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark W. Sirek, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeetendra Chaware, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Assignee:
NCR Corp., Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus provides for the extraction of environment information from a target database system. The environment information includes at least one of cost-related information and random sample statistics. The cost-related information and/or random sample statistics are imported to a test system, where the cost-related information and/or random sample statistics are used in query plan analysis by an optimizer.