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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2000
Tanya Couch, San Jose, CA (US);
Catherine Elizabeth Wuebker Drummond, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Virginia Walbridge Hughes, Jr., Hollister, CA (US);
Theresa Hsing Lai, Saratoga, CA (US);
Joseph Davis Lea, III, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
David Harold Oberstadt, Gilroy, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus for integrally referencing a user-generated copy of a catalog in a database system includes a memory device having thereon modules of code for execution by a processor. The modules include a database system component module configured to refer to a catalog generated by the database system; and a catalog qualifier designation module communicating with the database system component module and configured to receive a user designation of a user-specified name for a user-generated copy of the catalog generated by the database system to be referenced in place of the catalog generated by the database system.