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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2000
Chin-Heng Hong, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Sudheer Thakur, Belmont, CA (US);
Anil Nori, Fremont, CA (US);
Joyo Wijaya, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is described for processing requests to specify operations to database objects. A request to perform an action on a set of multiple objects is received by a database system. The request includes references to each object in the set, each reference indicating a table where the respective object resides. The reference is used to locate the object, and once located, the action is performed on the object. The reference may indicate a table using a unique table id not used in any of a plurality of databases to identify a table. The action request may be to modify the object, the references may include references to objects that reside in different database systems.