Teradata Assigned Patent
Computer-readable medium for optimizing database queries which use spools during query execution
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on November 26, 2015 at 2:49 pmTeradata US, Inc., Dayton, OH, has been assigned a patent (9,177,024) developed by Yuan, Heng, and Sirek, Mark, San Diego, CA, for a “system, method, and computer-readable medium for optimizing database queries which use spools during query execution.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A database system comprises a processing module, and a storage device communicatively coupled with the processing module and allocated thereto. The storage device stores a base table allocated to the processing module. The processing module receives a database query from a client computer system, and generates a spool based upon a number of columns of a table, and partitions at least one column of the spool based upon the database query received from the client computer system.“
The patent application was filed on March 12, 2012 (13/417,366).