The present invention describes techniques for performing searches in an efficient manner while minimizing the memory resources required to perform the searches. According to the techniques of the present invention, the number of comparisons needed to determine if a query element is in included in a set of elements is proportional to the length of the query element and independent of the number of elements in the set of elements.

 
Web www.patentalert.com

< Optimizer improved statistics collection

< Systems, methods, and computer program products to improve performance of ported applications, such as a database, operating on UNIX system services for the OS/390

> Method and apparatus for representing multidimensional data

> Techniques for updating live objects at clients using a dynamic routing network
~ 00217