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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:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2004
Applicants:
Matthew A. Huras, Ajax, CA;
Kevin R. Rose, Toronto, CA;
Aamer Sachedina, Newmarket, CA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method for assessing the activity level of a database management system. The number of page fix operations performed by execution units of a database management system can be counted and used to compute a measure for the activity level of the database management system. In one embodiment of the invention, multiple counters are used to count the page fix operations. This and other embodiments of the invention facilitate activity level assessment without incurring significant performance penalty.