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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2004
Gopala K. R. Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Savithri N. Dani, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gopala K. R. Kakivaya, Sammamish, WA (US);
Savithri N. Dani, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A generic mechanism to persist data objects into databases without a fundamental dependence on the underlying data store is provided. Rather than relying on the expertise of a programmer to know what the structure of a database should look like, data types are defined and adorned by the programmer with attributes that suggest what the corresponding data will be used for, and without the programmer defining the structure of the database that will be used to store the data. Thereafter, the database is dynamically created to satisfy the needs suggested by the adorned attributes. In particular, a number of different tables are created according to the intended needs for accessing the data. By doing this an optimized database can be created to provide the desired results without requiring the programmer to have any specific knowledge regarding databases and corresponding database schemas.