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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2001
Shirley S. Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Lynda Arnold Hansen, San Jose, CA (US);
San-Ju Lin Shi, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a utility for cross platform database query. In a preferred embodiment, the utility resides at an object server in a data system. The utility obtains a set of data items from a library server in the data system; places the set of data items from the library server in a temporary table at the object server; obtains each data item from the temporary table and the base object table; and converts each data item from the temporary table and the base object table, if a conversion is required, such that each data item from the temporary table and the base object table may be compared. Because the utility, the temporary table, and the base object table all reside at the same server, the utility knows whether or not to convert the data items so that a conflict free comparison is performed. In this manner, the utility need not actually know what platform is used by the library server, yet, data at the library server and the object server can be properly compared.