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BRUNO NICOLAS
US28 patents
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MICROSOFT CORP
10 patentsUS6947927B2Sep 20, 2005
Method and apparatus for exploiting statistics on query expressions for optimization
MICROSOFT CORP136 citations99
US7249120B2Jul 24, 2007
Method and apparatus for selecting candidate statistics to estimate the selectivity value of the conditional selectivity expression in optimize queries based on a set of predicates that each reference a set of relational database tables
MICROSOFT CORP65 citations98
US7882121B2Feb 1, 2011
Generating queries using cardinality constraints
MICROSOFT CORP84 citations96
US7363289B2Apr 22, 2008
Method and apparatus for exploiting statistics on query expressions for optimization
MICROSOFT CORP45 citations96
US7330848B2Feb 12, 2008
Method and apparatus for generating statistics on query expressions for optimization
MICROSOFT CORP32 citations92
US7007039B2Feb 28, 2006
Method of building multidimensional workload-aware histograms
MICROSOFT CORP28 citations92
US9792325B2Oct 17, 2017
Continuous cloud-scale query optimization and processing
MICROSOFT CORP11 citations84
US7685145B2Mar 23, 2010
Database physical design refinement using a merge-reduce approach
MICROSOFT CORP13 citations84
US7299226B2Nov 20, 2007
Cardinality estimation of joins
MICROSOFT CORP13 citations84
US7966313B2Jun 21, 2011
Configuration-parametric query optimization
MICROSOFT CORP19 citations80
BRUNO NICOLAS
9 patentsUS9235446B2Jan 12, 2016
Parallel computing execution plan optimization
BRUNO NICOLAS36 citations93
US8190595B2May 29, 2012
Flexible query hints in a relational database
BRUNO NICOLAS28 citations92
US8832155B2Sep 9, 2014
Minimizing database repros using language grammars
BRUNO NICOLAS3 citations62
US8214402B2Jul 3, 2012
Interactive physical design tuning
BRUNO NICOLAS4 citations62
US8140548B2Mar 20, 2012
Constrained physical design tuning
BRUNO NICOLAS5 citations62
US8676774B2Mar 18, 2014
Min-repro framework for database systems
BRUNO NICOLAS2 citations59
US8117189B2Feb 14, 2012
Method and system for pattern matching having holistic twig joins
BRUNO NICOLAS3 citations57
US10838957B2Nov 17, 2020
Slicing relational queries using spool operators
BRUNO NICOLAS0 citations41
US8150790B2Apr 3, 2012
Lightweight physical design alerter
BRUNO NICOLAS0 citations41
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
4 patentsUS11620286B2Apr 4, 2023
Continuous cloud-scale query optimization and processing
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC2 citations73
US12468699B2Nov 11, 2025
Continuous cloud-scale query optimization and processing
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations62
US11055283B2Jul 6, 2021
Continuous cloud-scale query optimization and processing
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations62
US12572538B2Mar 10, 2026
Unified query optimization for scale-out query processing
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC0 citations40
UNIV COLUMBIA
3 patentsUS7219091B1May 15, 2007
Method and system for pattern matching having holistic twig joins
UNIV COLUMBIA37 citations96
US7454415B1Nov 18, 2008
Method and system for pattern matching having holistic twig joins
UNIV COLUMBIA15 citations92
US7483887B1Jan 27, 2009
Method and system for pattern matching having holistic twig joins
UNIV COLUMBIA12 citations88