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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 19, 1999
Daniel Martin DeKimpe, La Selva Beach, CA (US);
William Earl Malloy, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Craig Reginald Tomlyn, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for DDL Extension layer that provides extended data definition language (DDL) capabilities for relational databases with multi-connections. A command is executed in a computer to perform a database operation on a relational database stored on a data store connected to the computer. The command is received from one of a plurality of applications. One or more compensating operations are logged for the command, wherein each compensating operation corresponds to an action to be performed for a rollback or a commit operation. An identifier is associated with the compensating operations, wherein the identifier identifies a unit of work from which the command was received.