ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,911, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Spill-to-disk in projection operations" was invented by Canberk Morelli (Mannheim, Germany) and Paul Willems (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and/or method for spill-to-disk in projection operations includes receiving a query including a projection, receiving a plurality of rows in response to the query processed by a processing thread of a plurality of processing threads, determining whether the query specifies an order for the plurality of rows, determining whether a disk buffer associated with the processing thread contains a stored row...