Patent Document ID: 8239383
Application ID: 11424268

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for managing execution of a query against a database having a multiplicity of data records, comprising: receiving, from a requesting entity, a query against the database; and performing an automated execution process, comprising: (i) iteratively executing the query against different samples of the database, each sample including a different subset of the multiplicity of data records; (ii) after each iterative execution of the query, determining whether a query result obtained for the iterative execution satisfies a predefined condition; and (iii) if the predefined condition is not satisfied, performing a predefined action.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the predefined condition defines an allowable range of values for values obtained in each iterative execution of the query, and wherein the predefined condition is only satisfied if the obtained values are included with the allowable range.