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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
May. 25, 2018
Salesforce.com, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Brittany Zenger, Coquitlam, CA;
Sybil Shim, Vancouver, CA;
Daniel Scott Perry, New Westiminster, CA (US);
Yi Zhao Liu, Vancouver, CA;
salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method of providing suggestions of related columns for a table operation in a data management system is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes storing, by a processor, a table having a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, metadata associated with the plurality of columns, and data stored within the plurality of rows and the plurality of columns; receiving, by a processor, a table operation selected by a system or user; processing, by a processor, at least one of the data stored in the plurality of columns and the metadata associated with plurality columns based on a type of the selected table operation to determine at least one relationship between at least two columns of the plurality of columns; and generating, by the processor, dialog data that presents the at least one relationship between the at least two columns to a system or user for use in the table operation.