International Business Machines Corporation

Julie Ann Jerves

Richard Henry Mandel, Iii

Mark Anthony Cesare

Tom Robert Christopher

Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for performing a clean operation on an input table. The input table to clean is indicated in an input data table name. At least one rule definition is processed to clean the input table. Each rule definition indicates a find criteria, a replacement value, and an input data column in the input table. For each rule definition, the input data column is searched for any fields that match the find criteria. The replacement value for the particular rule definition is inserted in the fields in the input data column that match the find criteria. Subsequent applications of additional rule definitions applied to the same input data column operate on replacement values inserted in the input data column during previously applied rule definitions.

Method, system, program, and data structure for cleaning a database table

Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for performing a clean operation on an input table. An input data table name indicates the input table. A first column in a table including a plurality of entries and at least one rule definition are processed. Each rule definition indicates a look-up column including a plurality of entries and a clean operation. A determination is made, for each record in the input table column, whether the record matches one entry in the look-up column. If so, the clean operation indicated in the rule definition is performed on each record that matches one entry in the look-up column.

Method, system, program, and data structure for cleaning a database table using a look-up table

Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for transforming data in an input table in a database in a server in communication with a client. A transform command is received from the client indicating an input data table name in the database and at least one rule indicating at least one cell in the input table to transform and a transform operation to perform with respect to the at least one cell. The transform command is executed in the server including the database by accessing a copy of the input table from the database and transforming data in the accessed input table according to each rule specified in the transform command.

Method, system, program, and data structure for transforming database tables

Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for transforming an input table. The input data table is comprised of multiple columns and rows. For each column, the data from one column in the input table is copied into one row in an output table to invert the input table.

Method, system, and program for inverting columns in a database table

Disclosed is a method, system, program, and data structure for transforming at least one column in a database input table. An input data table has multiple columns and rows. A determination is made of multiple data column names and multiple pivot columns in the input table. A row is generated in an output table for each data column name, having one data column name field including one data column name and at least one pivot column field including the value in one pivot column field in the input table, wherein each of the rows in the output table for each data column name has different values in at least one of the data column name field and pivot column field.

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Saratoga, CA, United States of America

Julie Ann Jerves