US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Using workload reduction to improve index tuning" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,949, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using workload reduction to improve index tuning" was invented by Matteo Brucato (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.), Tarique Ashraf Siddiqui (Redmond, Wash.), Wentao Wu (Kirkland, Wash.), Vivek Ravindranath Narasayya (Redmond, Wash.) and Surajit Chaudhuri (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a workload reduction system that reduces the complexity of workloads sent to a database system. For instance, the workload reduction system pre-processes workloads sent to a database system by generating reduced workloads that ...