Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pruning index generation and enhancement
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Application No.: US17654887Application Date: 2022-03-15
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Publication No.: US11803551B2Publication Date: 2023-10-31
- Inventor: Thierry Cruanes , Benoit Dageville , Ismail Oukid , Stefan Richter
- Applicant: Snowflake Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MT Bozeman
- Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
- Current Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MT Bozeman
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06F16/24
- IPC: G06F16/24 ; G06F16/2455 ; G06F16/9035 ; G06F16/28 ; G06F17/18 ; G06F16/22

Abstract:
A source table organized into a set of micro-partitions is accessed by a network-based data warehouse. A pruning index is generated based on the source table. The pruning index comprises a set of filters that indicate locations of distinct values in each column of the source table. A query directed at the source table is received at the network-based data warehouse. The query is processed using the pruning index. The processing of the query comprises pruning the set of micro-partitions of the source table to scan for data matching the query, the pruning of the plurality of micro-partitions comprising identifying, using the pruning index, a sub-set of micro-partitions to scan for the data matching the query.
Public/Granted literature
- US11734280B2 Pruning index generation and enhancement Public/Granted day:2023-08-22
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