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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2002
Bill Thanh Huynh, Oakland, CA (US);
Kevin Michael Mcbride, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mehul Mahendra Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bill Thanh Huynh, Oakland, CA (US);
Kevin Michael McBride, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mehul Mahendra Shah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and associated method for flagging differences in resource attributes across multiple database and transaction systems, to substantially improve database maintenance operations performed by database administrators. The system and method perform search for object attributes that define a resource across a large number of database systems, and return the information to a database administrator, with the information in an exception state flagged. The system and method offer significant advantages for database administration in the ability to simplify the views of multiple systems into a single system image, and the ability to provide a significant degree of flexibility in displaying database information, thus making it relatively easy to identify resources that do not necessarily conform to the single system definition. These features substantially enhance the efficiency of database administration operations and reduce the labor demand associated with performing two-dimensional searches for exception states.