10. An apparatus comprising: a processor; a non-transitory computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage device includes a database and instructions executable by the processor for: determining whether data specifying information meets a first criterion or a second criterion, with the data specifying information included in a WHERE clause of a SELECT statement, with the data specifying information specifying data in the database that is the subject of the SELECT statement; triggering a first resource group specification if the information included in the WHERE clause meets the first criterion, where the first resource group specification allocates a first set of processing resources of the processing system; triggering a second resource group specification if the information included in the WHERE clause meets the second criterion, where the second resource group specification allocates a second set of processing resources of the processing system; and processing the SELECT statement using either the first set of processing resources or the second set of processing resources based on which resource group specification is triggered.
10. An apparatus comprising: a processor; a non-transitory computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, wherein the non-transitory computer readable storage device includes a database and instructions executable by the processor for: determining whether data specifying information meets a first criterion or a second criterion, with the data specifying information included in a WHERE clause of a SELECT statement, with the data specifying information specifying data in the database that is the subject of the SELECT statement; triggering a first resource group specification if the information included in the WHERE clause meets the first criterion, where the first resource group specification allocates a first set of processing resources of the processing system; triggering a second resource group specification if the information included in the WHERE clause meets the second criterion, where the second resource group specification allocates a second set of processing resources of the processing system; and processing the SELECT statement using either the first set of processing resources or the second set of processing resources based on which resource group specification is triggered. 11. The apparatus as recited in claim 10 wherein the first resource group specification allocates a subset of resources from a plurality of resources and further includes: allocating the subset based upon a determination that data which is the subject of the SELECT statement was stored before a predetermined date.