Teradata Assigned Patent
Managing spool space in mixed SSD and HDD storage environment
By Francis Pelletier | June 30, 2015 at 2:41 pmTeradata US, Inc., Dayton, OH, has been assigned a patent (9,037,622) developed by Rubio, Paul, San Diego, CA, for a “system and method for managing spool space in a mixed SSD and HDD storage environment.”
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for managing soft reserve space within a database system including fast solid state storage devices, (SSDs) and traditional hard drive storage device, (HDDs). The system and method monitors actual spool use within the database system and dynamically modifies the soft-reserve space as a percentage of total storage space in response to changes in spool use.“
The patent application was filed on December 6, 2012 (13/706,605).