Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1996-03-08
1998-04-28
Lintz, Paul R.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 1, 707 4, G06F 1730
Patent
active
057458960
ABSTRACT:
A system of the present invention includes a PC-based relational database management system (PC RDBMS) with data integrity facilities. Methods are described for maintaining referential integrity between data tables which may be freely moved to various remote workstations--ones which do not have ready access to a centrally-maintained data dictionary. The system provides each table with descriptors for tracking referential integrity links or relationships among various tables, regardless of a particular situs where a table resides. A preferred interface is also described for permitting end-users to easily define referential integrity links between data tables.
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