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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2006
Mark John Anderson, Oronoco, MN (US);
Robert Joseph Bestgen, Rochester, MN (US);
James Michael Flanagan, Rochester, MN (US);
Scott Forstie, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas James Schreiber, Rochester, MN (US);
Mark John Anderson, Oronoco, MN (US);
Robert Joseph Bestgen, Rochester, MN (US);
James Michael Flanagan, Rochester, MN (US);
Scott Forstie, Rochester, MN (US);
Thomas James Schreiber, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An index advice record engine generates and stores index advice records. An index advice policy mechanism allows a user to define an index advice policy that specifies criteria for autonomic index creation, modification and deletion. An autonomic index mechanism reads the index advice records, compares this information with the criteria in the user-defined index advice policies, and determines whether an index should be created, modified or deleted based on the information in the index advice records and the index advice policies. By automating the process of creating, modifying and deleting indexes according to user-defined policies, the preferred embodiments alleviate human users from most of the work of manually creating, modifying and deleting indexes.