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Automatic derivation of shard key values and transparent multi-shard transaction and query support

US11151124B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Oracle International Corporation · US

Inventors

Lik Wong · Palo Alto, US
Leonid Novak · Castro Valley, US
Douglas Surber · Orinda, US
Ilesh Hasmukhlal Garish · Cupertino, US
Saurabh Verma · Cupertino, US
Wei-Ming Hu · Palo Alto, US
Mark Dilman · Sunnyvale, US
Jean De Lavarene · Versailles, FR

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 9, 2019
Grant date	Oct 19, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 11, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/2471
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques are provided for processing a database command in a sharded database. The processing of the database command may include generating or otherwise accessing a shard key expression, and evaluating the shard key expression to identify one or more target shards that contain data used to execute the database command.

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