Patent ID: 8510273

Claim:
A method of evaluating service level goals in a database system, the method comprising: reading a throughput service level goal assigned to a workload comprising a plurality of queries, wherein the throughput service level goal specifies a target number of queries of the workload to be processed per a predefined unit of time; reading a number of queries that have arrived for the workload during the unit of time; determining whether the number of queries that have arrived exceeds the target number of queries specified by the throughput service level goal; performing one or more actions associated with the throughput service level goal when the throughput service level goal is missed and the number of queries that have arrived exceeds the target number of queries specified by the throughput service level goal, and not performing the one or more actions associated with the throughput service level goal when the throughput service level goal is missed and the number of queries that have arrived does not exceed the target number of queries specified by the throughput service level goal.