ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,750, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Partition pruning by function" was invented by Qingwei Ren (Xian, China), Zhe Qu (Xian, China), Zhilong Hao (Xian, China), Weimin Qi (Xian, China), Long Zhang (Xian, China), Jiaxin Liu (Xian, China), Xiaoke Liu (Xian, China) and Xiaolong Yang (Xian, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a query may include evaluating a query on a database table to identify a time based function included in the query. One or more partitions of the database table may be pruned from the query based at least on the partitions being associated with a first time ran...