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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2009
Applicant:
Randol K. Bright, Austin, TX (US);
Inventor:
Randol K. Bright, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique is disclosed that avoids index page splits when inserting large numbers of rows into a table of a relational database. Keys in index pages are moved to successive index pages to make room to insert keys on the original index page. Where no room is available on successive pages, a new index page is created to hold moved keys. The result is typically a smaller chain of index pages with better locality than using the conventional insertion technique of splitting index pages.