System and method for switching a data partition

D Pawar, WY Guy, LJ Kollar - US Patent 7,624,120, 2009 - Google Patents
A method of mapping data into a table includes identifying pointers of a source portion and
target portion and switching the metadata pointers of the target portion to be those of the …

System and method for quiescing select data modification operations against an object of a database during one or more structural operations

W Romine, R Doering - US Patent App. 11/440,259, 2006 - Google Patents
The invention is a reorganization system having a reorganization application, a database
management system, and one or more database files. The reorganization application …

System and method for quiescing select data modification operations against an object of a database during one or more structural operations

W Romine, R Doering - US Patent 7,805,423, 2010 - Google Patents
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System and method for filtering and sorting data

JG Gorman - US Patent 6,738,770, 2004 - Google Patents
Abstract System and method for filtering and sorting data. The system includes data
management system for displaying a data table having a plurality of rows and columns of …

System and method for chunk-based indexing of file system content

D Borthakur, S Pashenkov - US Patent 7,487,138, 2009 - Google Patents
A system and method for chunk-based indexing of file system content. In one embodiment,
the system may include a storage device configured to store data and a file system …

System and method for reorganizing stored data

AB Isip Jr - US Patent 7,225,206, 2007 - Google Patents
A method for reorganizing data is described. The method includes the steps of reading each
record of a source file and writing each record to a destination file. The method also includes …

Method for fault tolerant modification of data representation in a large database

GM Gilbert - US Patent 6,792,429, 2004 - Google Patents
A system and method for restructuring the physical storage of a table of a database. The
records of the table are grouped into one or more partitions, each of which is stored in a file …

System and method for managing data through families of inter-related metadata tables

C Milligan, T Noland, L Hodge - US Patent App. 10/330,875, 2004 - Google Patents
A system and method for providing families of inter-related copies of metadata in which the
copies of metadata are logically linked. With the system and method, a mapping table or …

System and method for storage of snapshot metadata in a remote file

SL Manley, RC Chen, JK Edwards - US Patent 7,644,109, 2010 - Google Patents
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qtree, and may be See application file for complete search history. located outside of the …

Method and apparatus for adding a database partition

KGR Greer - US Patent 8,005,804, 2011 - Google Patents
A data repository system and method are provided. A method in accordance with an
embodiment includes an operation that can be used to port data from one or more existing …