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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2014
Bjoern Mielenhausen, Walldorf, DE;
Bjoern Mielenhausen, Walldorf, DE;
SAP AG, , DE;
Abstract
System, method, and computer program product embodiments transform data from a first version, for example an initial version of a database, to a second version, for example a subsequent version of a database. An embodiment includes modifying the metadata of the data to include transformational clauses, each of which describes how a portion of the data in the first version is transformed to data in the second version. Another exemplary embodiment includes differentiating between rename and add/delete operations to reduce the amount of transformational clauses included in the metadata. For example, rename operations can be identified by ignoring commonly-named columns between two versions, and identifying columns where the name has changed between the two versions while the data type has not changed.