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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2005
Abhyudaya Agrawal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sivasankaran Chandrasekar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ravi Murthy, Fremont, CA (US);
Nipun Agarwal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Sedlar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abhyudaya Agrawal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sivasankaran Chandrasekar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ravi Murthy, Fremont, CA (US);
Nipun Agarwal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Sedlar, San Francisco, CA (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A database server determines, on an element-level of granularity, what form of VARRAY storage to map collections of elements defined by a XML schema. A collection element may be mapped to an in-line VARRAY or an out-of-line VARRAY. The determination may based on a variety of factors, including the database type mapped to the collection element, database limitations that limit the form storage for certain database types, and annotations ('mapping annotations') embedded within that XML schema that specifying a database type for database representation of a collection element or a form of VARRAY storage.