Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Partial indexes for partitioned tables
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Application No.: US14255425Application Date: 2014-04-17
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Publication No.: US10282437B2Publication Date: 2019-05-07
- Inventor: Ananth Raghavan , George Eadon , Ramesh Kumar , Hermann Baer , Suresh Sridharan
- Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
- Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Redwood Shores
- Agency: Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP
- Agent Daniel D. Ledesma
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
Techniques for creating and using partial indexes are provided. A partial index is an index that indexes one or more partitions of a partitioned table and does not index one or more other partitions of the partitioned table. Thus, if a partition of a partitioned table is rarely used, then an index may index all other partitions of the partitioned table or at least only those partitions that are written to or read from relatively frequently. Also, in preparation for loading data into a partition, indexing for the partition may be “turned off”, effectively making a full index a partial index. While the data is loaded into the partition, the partial index is still available for query processing. After the data is loaded into the partition, indexing for the partition is “turned on”, which causes the data in the partition to be indexed by the partial index.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150302035A1 PARTIAL INDEXES FOR PARTITIONED TABLES Public/Granted day:2015-10-22
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