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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1996
Terris J Linenbach, San Mateo, CA (US);
Vladimir Gorelik, Fremont, CA (US);
Craig R Powers, Belmont, CA (US);
Robert E Powers, Fremont, CA (US);
Tana C Netsch, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sagent Technologies, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A deferred transaction mechanism facilitates multi-threaded operation of database application programs. The deferred transaction mechanism allows data items to be committed from the local memory of a computer system to a database system in a background thread, while other foreground threads continue to read the data item. In most instances, this makes the delay in committing a data item to the database imperceptible to a human user of a database application program. The deferred transaction mechanism further supports an 'undo' feature, which allows modifications to a data item located in a computer's local memory to be rapidly discarded.