Humana Inc.
SUSPENSION OF DATABASE MAINTENANCE USING PARALLEL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES

Abstract:

An adaptive maintenance technique using multiple simultaneous, dedicated, process executions to perform database management. Parallel execution of dedicated database maintenance processes organized by object groups provides logical channel isolation (preventing command conflicts) and minimizes the time for maintenance processing while allowing for larger business processing windows even as the database grows in size and processing demand increases. The simultaneous and parallel database maintenance processes are configured to allow suspension of maintenance midstream and the setting of maintenance windows to predetermined time periods.