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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2007
Shu-shang Sam Wei, Danville, CA (US);
Roger W. Kilday, Livermore, CA (US);
Victor Spivak, San Mateo, CA (US);
Meir Amiel, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Newark, CA (US);
Yik-ping LI, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaofeng MA, San Ramon, CA (US);
Shu-Shang Sam Wei, Danville, CA (US);
Roger W. Kilday, Livermore, CA (US);
Victor Spivak, San Mateo, CA (US);
Meir Amiel, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Venkat Chandrasekaran, Newark, CA (US);
Yik-Ping Li, Fremont, CA (US);
Xiaofeng Ma, San Ramon, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An attribute of a hierarchical class-based object is received. The attribute in a database is stored both in a first location in a first table at a first level of a hierarchy of database tables which table hierarchy is based at least in part on a class hierarchy associated with the hierarchical class-based object and in a second location in a second table at a second level of the table hierarchy which second level is higher than the first level.