US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Oct. 20 for "Dynamic predicate reordering at runtime" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,738, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Dynamic predicate reordering at runtime" was invented by Sebastian BreB (Berlin), Max Heimel (Berlin), Adrian Peter Neumann (Berlin), Malek Souissi (Berlin) and Konstantinos Zoumpatianos (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a first query plan corresponding to a query, the first query plan comprising a set of predicates. The subject technology receives, during execution of a first portion of the first query plan, a set of rowsets. The subject technology determines a set of metrics for a first number of rows from a plurality of r...