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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2002
Brian T. Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Hsiuying Y. Cheng, Fremont, CA (US);
Shuanglin Guo, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick M. Malone, Campbell, CA (US);
Thomas A. Beavin, Milpitas, CA (US);
Xiazhen Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xun LI, San Jose, CA (US);
Brian T. Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Hsiuying Y. Cheng, Fremont, CA (US);
Shuanglin Guo, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick M. Malone, Campbell, CA (US);
Thomas A. Beavin, Milpitas, CA (US);
Xiazhen Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xun Li, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for improving the performance of evaluating predicates with non-matching operands by aggressively casting the input value to the data type of the target column before the data of the target column is accessed.