ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,735, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Partition-local partition value identifier grouping" was invented by Andreas Amler (Heidelberg, Germany), Jonathan Dees (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Till Merker (Sandhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for executing a query may include generating a partition value identifier for a partitioned table. The partitioned table may include a main fragment including a main dictionary storing a first value and a main value identifier corresponding to the first value and a delta fragment including a delta dictionary storing a second value and a delta value ide...