Patent 7672925 was granted and assigned to Sybase on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system, method, and computer program product for processing a database query are presented. Steps for identifying a value expression comprising information needed in order to resolve a query, associating enumerated values with the set of distinct values for the value expression, evaluating the query utilizing the enumerated values, and deleting the association are disclosed.