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Non-equijoin metadata

US8914352B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 10, 2007
Grant dateDec 16, 2014
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Expiry dateFeb 1, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/24534
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The subject mater herein relates to database management and, more particularly, to non-equijoin metadata. Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, software, and data structures to facilitate non-equijoins of data. Some such embodiments include a data store to hold metadata describing relationships between database tables. The relationships between database tables may include one or more non-equijoins of tables in the form of one or more table-column pairs of a first table being non-equal to one or more table-column pairs of a second table. In some embodiments, the metadata may be used by a query generator to build query statements including one or more non-equijoin.

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