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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2015
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Nilesh Choudhury, Redwood City, CA (US);
Scott Martin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zuoyu Tao, Belmont, CA (US);
Jia Shi, Burlingame, CA (US);
Alexander Tsukerman, Foster City, CA (US);
Kothanda Umamageswaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques herein are for creating a database snapshot by creating a sparse database. A method involves receiving a creation request to create a sparse database. The creation request has an identity of a parent database. The creation request is processed to create a sparse database. The sparse database has the identity of the parent database. The sparse database does not contain data copied from the parent database. A write request to write data into the sparse database is received. The write request is processed by writing the data into the sparse database. The parent database does not receive the data.