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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2004
Shigeru Tago, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Yoshii, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Mizunuma, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunori Masaki, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Tago, Tokyo, JP;
Junji Yoshii, Tokyo, JP;
Tadashi Mizunuma, Tokyo, JP;
Katsunori Masaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Software Engineering Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides information concerning records that cannot be retrieved on a search path among databases when the retrieval of search keys for other related databases and records is carried out in a plurality of databases in a chain-reactive manner. In the course of retrieving search keys and records in a chain-reactive manner up to a terminal database, information for identifying a group of search keys and a group of records retrieved through a series of retrieval processing is outputted in one line or one column of a table. When the record retrieved from a certain database in the chain-reactive search procedure does not contain a search key to be entered into a subsequent database, information for identifying a record that does not contain the search key and information for identifying a database having the record is outputted.