US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 24 for "Efficient database reads based on checkpoint avoidance" (Montana Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,627, issued on March 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Efficient database reads based on checkpoint avoidance" was invented by Neil James Scott Macnaughton (Lakeside, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are techniques related to efficient database reads based on checkpoint avoidance. The techniques may include determining, by a database server instance in a multi-node database system, whether a database object is dirty. The multi-node database system may include a plurality of database server instances that share access to a database that stores the database object. The techn...