Patent ID: 11921721
Assignee: SALESFORCE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable device comprising a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:
selecting a first set of tuples from an ordered index of a table, wherein the table is associated with a query, and wherein a count of the first set of tuples is less than or equal to a max row threshold;
initializing, based on the index, a last key value variable comprising a first field and a second field, the first field storing a minimum value for a first data type and the second field storing a minimum value for a second data type;
executing the query against a tuple in the first set of tuples corresponding to a next key value that is subsequent to the last key value variable;
incrementally updating the last key value variable by setting the last key value variable to the next key value until the query has been executed against the first set of tuples;
receiving first results comprising a first subset of the first set of tuples from the table that satisfy one or more parameters of the query;
determining a second set of tuples selected from the index based on the most recently processed tuple, wherein a count of the second set of tuples is less than or equal to the max row threshold;
receiving second results comprising a second subset of the second set of tuples from the table that satisfy at the one or more parameters of the query;
combining the first results with second results; and
returning the combined results in response to the query.