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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2007
Brian Shaun Vickery, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Anoop Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinita Subramanian, Campbell, CA (US);
Brian Shaun Vickery, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Anoop Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Vinita Subramanian, Campbell, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An automated method to align column values to proper byte boundaries for rapid scanning in a parallel processing database system. A table definition is received having a logical order of fields. The fields are re-ordered to create a physical order of fields. The physical order of fields has fixed length fields having a same byte alignment requirement positioned adjacent to each other in descending order from largest size to smallest size, and wherein a first fixed length field in the physical order is aligned on a proper byte boundary. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.