ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,843, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Multi database queries" was invented by Fabio Angius (El Sobrante, Calif.), Chen Luo (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sarvesh Singh (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for multi database query processing are described. Objects located in a plurality of databases referenced in a query can be compiled. A connection string based on the compiled objects can be generated. The connection string can include mapping information related to the related to the plurality of databases and cluster information of where the plurality of databases are stored in th...