Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Volker Gerhard Markl

21Patents
9h-index
36Co-inventors
67Inventor score

Filing activity: Jun 6, 2001 → Aug 18, 2009

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7877381B2 Progressive refinement of a federated query plan during query execution Physics 82 Active
US6763359B2 Learning from empirical results in query optimization Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 50 Expired
US7958113B2 Automatically and adaptively determining execution plans for queries with parameter markers Physics 40 Active
US7647293B2 Detecting correlation from data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US7774336B2 Adaptively reordering joins during query execution Physics 29 Active
US7831592B2 System and method for updating database statistics according to query feedback Physics 20 Active
US7490110B2 Predictable query execution through early materialization Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Active
US8812481B2 Management of interesting database statistics Physics 12 Active
US7353219B2 Determining validity ranges of query plans based on suboptimality Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US7376639B2 Selectivity estimation for conjunctive predicates in the presence of partial knowledge about multivariate data distributions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 9 Expired
US8166022B2 System, method, and apparatus for parallelizing query optimization Physics 8 Active
US7765200B2 SQL query problem determination tool Physics 8 Active
US7987178B2 Automatically determining optimization frequencies of queries with parameter markers Physics 7 Active
US7610264B2 Method and system for providing a learning optimizer for federated database systems Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 7 Expired
US8135701B2 Selectivity estimation for conjunctive predicates in the presence of partial knowledge about multivariate data distributions Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Active
US7512574B2 Consistent histogram maintenance using query feedback Physics 5 Active
US7512629B2 Consistent and unbiased cardinality estimation for complex queries with conjuncts of predicates Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7363324B2 Method, system and program for prioritizing maintenance of database tables Physics 4 Expired
US8812486B2 Determining validity ranges of query plans based on suboptimality Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US7725461B2 Management of statistical views in a database system Physics 2 Active
US8140490B2 Method, system and program for prioritizing maintenance of database tables Physics 1 Active

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