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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2010
Applicants:
Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, WA (US);
Vivek R. Narasayya, Redmond, WA (US);
Zhimin Chen, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, WA (US);
Vivek R. Narasayya, Redmond, WA (US);
Zhimin Chen, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This patent application relates to foreign-key detection. One implementation obtains a set of data tables. This implementation automatically determines foreign-key relationships of columns from separate tables of the set.