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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2000
Applicants:
Raymond Guzman, Amherst, NH (US);
Goutam D. Kulkarni, Nashua, NH (US);
Joydip Kundu, Nashua, NH (US);
Inventors:
Raymond Guzman, Amherst, NH (US);
Goutam D. Kulkarni, Nashua, NH (US);
Joydip Kundu, Nashua, NH (US);
Assignee:
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method and mechanism for encoding multiple virtual tables into one or more source tables. An aspect of the invention is directed to the access of a virtual table virtual table without requiring separate entries for the virtual table in the meta-data of a database system. Another aspect of the invention is directed to a virtual table that has different column signatures than its underlying source table(s).