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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2003
Richard Dean Dettinger, Rochester, MN (US);
Jennifer Lynn LA Rocca, Rochester, MN (US);
Rick Joseph Stevens, Mantorville, MN (US);
Richard Dean Dettinger, Rochester, MN (US);
Jennifer Lynn La Rocca, Rochester, MN (US);
Rick Joseph Stevens, Mantorville, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A database operation mechanism includes the capability of specifying a predefined database operation as a source of data for a different database operation. When the different database operation needs to be performed, the database operation mechanism determines whether the different database operation can use a predefined database operation as a data source. If so, the predefined database operation is specified as the source of data for the different database operation. If the different database operation cannot use a predefined database operation as a data source, the database operation mechanism determines whether the different database operation can use a modified form of a predefined database operation as a data source. If so, the different database operation may use the modified predefined database operation as a source of data. If the different database operation cannot use a predefined database operation or a modified form of a predefined database operation as a data source, a different database operation is generated and executed.