Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tracking changes in database data
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Application No.: US16942717Application Date: 2020-07-29
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Publication No.: US10983980B2Publication Date: 2021-04-20
- Inventor: Istvan Cseri , Torsten Grabs , Benoit Dageville
- Applicant: Snowflake Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Mateo
- Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
- Current Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Mateo
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: G06F16/23
- IPC: G06F16/23 ; G06F16/27 ; G06F16/2455

Abstract:
The subject technology executes a change on an existing micro-partition of a table of a database, the executing of the change comprising generating a new micro-partition that embodies the change. The subject technology receives a request for a delta for the table between a first timestamp and a second timestamp. The subject technology queries at least one change tracking column to determine the delta between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, the delta including information indicating at least one database operation that was performed to at least one row of a set of rows of the table, without including information as to intermediate changes made to at least one row of the set of rows of the table between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, that facilitates a reduction in storage of historical versions of the set of rows of the table.
Information query