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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2001
Aki Tomita, Tachikawa, JP;
Kiyohiro Obara, Hachioji, JP;
Aki Tomita, Tachikawa, JP;
Kiyohiro Obara, Hachioji, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A data transforming method and apparatus of a database management system for transforming data within a disk storage device between database data formats, thereby reducing the system load, when converting data formats between database management systems. The invention includes a skeleton program for instructing data transformation and a communication program being provided on a host computer, and a data transformation program for transforming data formats and a communication program being provided on a disk storage. A request sent from the skeleton program via the communication programs to the data transformation program, causes the data format transformation to occur within the disk storage.