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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2014
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Allan George Schrum, Bozeman, MT (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of preserving deprecated database columns across application upgrades may include maintaining a database communicatively coupled to an application. The application may include a first schema. The first schema may indicate a first column for the database. The method may also include receiving an update for the application. The update may include a second schema that removes the first column from the database. The method may additionally include renaming the first column by appending a prefix to a name of the first column. The prefix may indicate that the first column is deprecated. The method may further include maintaining the first column in the database.