International Business Machines Corporation

Vinod P Chirayath

Salvador Ledezma

Gary T Gong

Venkatesh S Gopal

Zackery M England

Some embodiments include a method for searching a hierarchical database structure of a database management system. In some embodiments, the method comprises detecting text input in a database search field, wherein the text input defines a search for data in the hierarchical database structure, wherein the hierarchical database structure includes items, and wherein the items include one or more of actions to be performed on data in the hierarchical database structure, indexes for looking up data in the hierarchical database structure, and database schemas defining databases in the hierarchical database structure. The method can also comprise selecting items in the hierarchical database structure based on the text input; presenting selectable options, wherein the selectable options are associated with the items in the hierarchical database structure; detecting selection of one of the selectable options, and presenting data associated with the one of the items.

Accessing data and functionality in database systems

The computer retrieves a list of the data elements contained in a database. The computer performs a static and dynamic analysis on the list to determine which data elements have been active in a static or dynamic Structured Query Language (SQL) statement, then removes active data elements from the list. The computer performs a dependency test to determine which data elements on the list are depended on by data objects not on the list and removes those data elements which are depended on. The computer analyzes application code to extract SQL statements and determine whether data elements on the list are active in application code SQL. Any data elements on the list which are active in application code SQL are removed from the list and the remaining data elements on the list are sorted in descending order based on size.

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