Inventor
WADDINGTON WILLIAM H
US17 patents
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ORACLE CORP
12 patentsUS6438562B1Aug 20, 2002
Parallel index maintenance
ORACLE CORP309 citations99
US5848408ADec 8, 1998
Method for executing star queries
ORACLE CORP173 citations99
US6026406AFeb 15, 2000
Batch processing of updates to indexes
ORACLE CORP100 citations98
US6430550B1Aug 6, 2002
Parallel distinct aggregates
ORACLE CORP85 citations96
US5850547ADec 15, 1998
Method and apparatus for parallel processing aggregates using intermediate aggregate values
ORACLE CORP68 citations96
US6041384AMar 21, 2000
Method for managing shared resources in a multiprocessing computer system
ORACLE CORP68 citations95
US5956704ASep 21, 1999
Method and apparatus for parallelizing operations that insert data into an existing data container
ORACLE CORP90 citations95
US5903898AMay 11, 1999
Method and apparatus for user selectable logging
ORACLE CORP86 citations95
US5872981AFeb 16, 1999
Method for managing termination of a lock-holding process using a waiting lock
ORACLE CORP76 citations95
US5870743AFeb 9, 1999
Method and apparatus for parallelizing operations that create a table
ORACLE CORP79 citations95
US6230220B1May 8, 2001
Method for allocating either private or shared buffer memory for storing data from sort operations in accordance with an assigned value or threshold value
ORACLE CORP25 citations92
US5799210AAug 25, 1998
Method for allocating either private or shared buffer memory for storing data from sort operations in accordance with an assigned value or threshold value
ORACLE CORP24 citations92
ORACLE INT CORP
3 patentsUS6684203B1Jan 27, 2004
Using global temporary tables to transform queries
ORACLE INT CORP69 citations93
US7680791B2Mar 16, 2010
Method for sorting data using common prefix bytes
ORACLE INT CORP12 citations77
US7203672B2Apr 10, 2007
Communicating external expressions using a parallel single cursor model
ORACLE INT CORP6 citations63