ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,422, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Mechanisms for selecting query plans" was invented by Bradley Glasbergen (Squamish, Canada), Prateek Swamy (Livermore, Calif.), Yi Xia (Los Angeles) and Lars Hofhansl (Orinda, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to determining whether to utilize an alternative query plan for a subsequent execution of a database query. A computer system accesses a trace record detailing an execution of the database query in accordance with a first query plan selected by a query optimizer. The computer system may determine, based on the trace...