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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2004
Applicants:
Stephen Fife Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);
Arthur Vargas Lopes, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen Fife Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);
Arthur Vargas Lopes, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Teradata US, Inc., Miamisburg, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, computer program, and computer network are disclosed for transforming multiple alternative equality conditions between a database column and a set of values. The method includes identifying one or more groups of consecutive values in the set. The equality conditions corresponding to values found in one or more of the identified groups are removed. One or more inequality conditions corresponding to the one or more of the identified groups are added.