not be a limitation of the present invention it may be appreciated that a workload classifier module herein after called a classifier for simplifying the description may contain computer programmed code in a form that is executable by a data processing system or may contain a combination of hardware registers and computer executable code the classifier module may be included with a database management system or may be adapted to operate in conjunction with the database management system the classifier if implemented as only code may be embodied on a computer readable medium as part of a computer program product in which the computer program product may be placed in memory of the data processing system in this manner the computer program product is a convenient mechanism for delivering the classifier to the data processing system it may be appreciated that another aspect of the invention may be a computer readable modulated carrier signal that is usable over a network in which the carrier signal comprises means embedded therein for directing an information retrieval system to identify a workload type for a given workload the carrier signal can be used for conveying or downloading the classifier from a source data processing.