ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,832, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Synthetic data generation for query plans" was invented by Bradley Glasbergen (Squamish, Canada), Yen-Li Laih (Bellevue, Wash.), Yi Xia (Los Angeles), Colm McHugh (Dublin) and Prateek Swamy (Livermore, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to database query optimizers. In some embodiments, a system receives, from a query optimizer, a plurality of query plans for a database maintained by the database system. The system retrieves a set of database statistics for the database and generates, via a data synthesizer, a plurality of s...