Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Patent
1997-05-09
2000-10-17
Alam, Hosain T.
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
707 3, 707 4, G06F 1730
Patent
active
061345407
ABSTRACT:
The system, method, and program of this invention enables an object language application (e.g., C++, JAVA, etc.,) to issue a query over a view and to receive back, as query results, handles to application type objects which can be further manipulated by the application. A view is defined herein as a collection of a view type, and a view type is defined as a class or type. Upon receipt of the query referencing a view type, a query engine generates a query plan that builds mock (i.e., proxy) application type objects in memory based upon the view types. The application can run methods on the application type objects or point to other application type objects from the handles, to the application objects, that are returned to the application; and these manipulations will be understood by the query engine. In a preferred embodiment, query rewrite optimizations are applied to the queries over views requiring object building in order to optimize the evaluation of the query and the building of view objects as query results. For example, when a query over a view is analyzed and it is determined that the query is not requesting a handle, and is not referencing a method, but only asks for values, no objects are built. Also, if a query traverses a reference type attribute, but the query can be transformed into a join or outer join operation between relational tables, then no object building is required. In these above described situations, the rewritten query can be pushed down to the database management system of the data source for resolution. If the query does request a handle or references a method, then some object building is required. However, query rewrite techniques can still be applied so that parts of the query are pushed down to the DBMS to minimize the number of objects that are built.
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Carey Michael J.
Kiernan Gerald G.
Alam Hosain T.
Corrielus Jean M.
International Business Machines - Corporation
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