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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2010
Jesse Collins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simon Y Wong, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jaikumar Bathija, Freemont, CA (US);
John F O'brien, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jesse Collins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simon Y Wong, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jaikumar Bathija, Freemont, CA (US);
John F O'Brien, San Francisco, CA (US);
salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided methods and systems for providing multiple column custom indexes in a multi-tenant database environment. A method embodiment provides defining a multi-tenant data structure having a plurality of data columns data fields and a plurality of rows for each of multiple tenants, each row including a data column for a tenant identifier, defining a first data field for a tenant, the first data field having a first data type, defining a second data field for the tenant, the second field having a second data type, and defining an index table including a tenant identifier for the tenant, a copy of data from the first data field and the second data field, and a key to the corresponding rows of the multi-tenant data structure.