US Patent No: 5,897,632

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Method and system for using materialized views to evaluate queries involving aggregation

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The present invention is a method and system for using materialized views to compute answers to SQL queries with grouping and aggregation. A query is evaluated a using a materialized view. The materialized view is semantically analyzed to determine whether the materialized view is usable in evaluating an input query. The semantic analysis includes determining that the materialized view does not project out any columns needed to evaluate the input query and determining that the view does not discard any tuple that satisfies a condition enforced in the input query. If the view is usable, the input query is rewritten to produce an output query that is multi-set equivalent to the input query and that specifies one or more occurrences of the materialized view as a source of information to be returned by the output query. The output query is then evaluated. The semantic analysis and rewriting may be iterated, with the output query of each iteration being the input query of the next iteration. The output query is evaluated after the last iteration.

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LINKEDIN CORPORATIONPALO ALTO, CA1148

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dar, Shaul Tel Aviv, IL 6 291
Jagadish, Hosagrahar Visvesvaraya Berkeley Heights, NJ 23 923
Levy, Alon Yitzchak Seattle, WA 7 693
Srivastava, Divesh Summit, NJ 121 2047

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