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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1997
Anil Nori, San Jose, CA (US);
Viswanathan Krishnaomurthy, Fremont, CA (US);
Vikas Arora, Mountain View, CA (US);
Srinath Krishnaswamy, Redwood City, CA (US);
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention pertains to an apparatus and process for storing information object collections in a database. Examples of such object collections are nested tables and variable length arrays. In an embodiment, the invention provides mechanisms and methods for storing nested tables in either a base table of a database, or an index-organized table. In one embodiment, mechanisms and methods are provided for storing variable length arrays into a table column, as a large object ('LOB'), or as an index-organized table. The invention also provides methods and mechanisms for accessing data from these storage mediums.