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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2001
Steven Soria, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Donald Allan Weil, San Jose, CA (US);
Gerald Edward Kozina, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chenhuei J. Chiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Lynda Arnold Hansen, San Jose, CA (US);
Mayank Vipin Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas S. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Steven Soria, Jr., San Jose, CA (US);
Donald Allan Weil, San Jose, CA (US);
Gerald Edward Kozina, Cupertino, CA (US);
Chenhuei J. Chiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Lynda Arnold Hansen, San Jose, CA (US);
Mayank Vipin Shah, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas S. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, and storage medium for providing versioning of data by associating a version number having a value with a data item, establishing a table for storing a most recent version of the data item, establishing a second table for storing all versions of the data item other than the most recent version, storing the current version of the data item in the first table, storing all other versions of the data item in the second table, and determining the version of said database data item based on the version number and storage location of the database data item.