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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
May. 30, 2001
Sreedhar Mukkamalla, San Mateo, CA (US);
Arvind Nithrakashyap, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tirthankar Lahiri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alok Pareek, Brisbane, CA (US);
Juan R. Loaiza, San Carlos, CA (US);
J. William Lee, Foster City, CA (US);
Gary C. Ngai, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sreedhar Mukkamalla, San Mateo, CA (US);
Arvind Nithrakashyap, San Mateo, CA (US);
Tirthankar Lahiri, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alok Pareek, Brisbane, CA (US);
Juan R. Loaiza, San Carlos, CA (US);
J. William Lee, Foster City, CA (US);
Gary C. Ngai, Saratoga, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided herein is a mechanism that allows a given database system to access data blocks from another database system, where data blocks from the given database system and data blocks from the other database system have different sizes. According to an aspect of the present invention, a tablespace in the other database system contained the data blocks. The tablespace is detached from the other database system and integrated into the given database, which is capable of processing data stored in data blocks of a different sizes.