International Business Machines Corporation

Roy Lorenzo Smith

Jerome Quan Wong

Curt Lee Cotner

Nelson Mendonca Mattos

Regina J Liu

Randy Mitchell Nakagawa

Maureen Mae McDevitt

Kimberly Anne Braia

A catalog management system for executing a statement that accesses a catalog to manipulate referenced system or user-defined objects and related data. Initially, a statement for a transaction to operate on an object is received. A private copy of the structure of a catalog is created to record information about the object used by the transaction. Then, the private copy of the structure of the catalog is used for the during the transaction to access the object.

Method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for executing a statement to manipulate data

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented authorization system. A statement is to be executed by a computer to manipulate data in a database stored on a data storage device connected to the computer. Initially, an environment of the database from which the statement was invoked is identified. Additionally, a security option is identified. Then, authorization privileges for the statement are determined based on the identified environment and security option.

Context-sensitive authorization in an RDBMS

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Roy Lorenzo Smith