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Universitatsklinikum Hamburg-eppendorf

Stefan Werner

Martin Hartig

Helmut Prestel

Rolf Hammer

Kai Baumgarten

Christiane Kettschau

Ralf Wendelgass

Sigrid K Wortmann

Klaus Pantel

Harriet Wikman

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for embedding database procedures in data-driven software applications written in a language different from the database-procedure language. For example, in some embodiments, the hosting application may be written in ABAP whereas the database procedure may be written in SQLScript. In various embodiments, the database procedures are encapsulated in specially marked methods of the host application, which, when called at runtime, cause the database procedures to be created in a database catalog and executed on a database server.

Embedding database procedures in data-driven applications

Disclosed herein are systems and methods facilitating extensions to software applications that access a database, and in particular to applications with embedded database procedures. In various embodiments, an extension anchor embedded in the application as well as one or more extensions implemented as database procedures are encapsulated in specially marked database-procedure methods.

Extensibility of embedded database procedures

Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the hot deployment of database procedures embedded in a host software application. In various example embodiments, the database procedures are encapsulated in specially marked methods of the host application, which, when called at runtime, cause the database procedures, and associated procedure stubs through which the database procedures are called, to be created in a database catalog and executed on the database server. When an embedded database procedure is modified in an application by one user during execution of that application by a second user, compilation of the modified database procedure may result in deletion of the original database procedure and/or associated procedure stub from the database, avoiding inconsistencies between database procedure versions during application execution by the second user.

Hot deployment of embedded database procedures

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Hamburg, Germany

Stefan Werner