Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Charlie D Carson

Praveen Seshadri

Shireesh Kumar Thota

Sameer Arun Verkhedkar

Shawn Bice

Matt Hollingsworth

Samer Boshra

Ken Van Hyning

Aditya Ashok Sarpotdar

Omri Bahat

Robert Hutchinson

Anna Wawrzyniak

Embodiments are directed to incrementally upgrading an entity-relationship system. In an embodiment, a computer system receives an indication that one instance including its own specified set of entities is to be upgraded to a second instance including a different specified set of entities. The computer system accesses the two instances to determine the differences between the entities of each instance. The computer system then discovers, based on the determined differences between the two instances, a set of actions that, when executed, change the entities of the first instance to the entities of the second instance. The set of actions is ordered such that processing order constraints are respected. The computer system then incrementally upgrades the entities of the first instance to the entities of the second instance by processing the determined set of actions in the appropriate, constraint-aware order.

Incremental upgrade of entity-relationship systems

Data-tier application components (DACs) and methods for managing database applications are disclosed. According to one particular embodiment, a DAC includes a single unit of management that packages metadata related to a database object. The metadata related to the database object includes an identifier of the database object, a database runtime resource identifier of a database runtime resource operable to manipulate the database object, and a policy related to execution of the database runtime resource.

Data-tier application component

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Charlie D Carson