Patent ID: 11960468
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 5:
6. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a database management system, a definition of a view of a database, the definition comprising a reference to an element of a database schema;
validating the definition of the view without resolving the reference to the element, based at least in part on determining that the definition of the view is syntactically valid;
providing to a client of the database management system, without determining whether the reference to the element refers to a corresponding schema element of the database schema, an indication that a query may be submitted to the view for processing by the database management system, the indication based at least in part on the validation of the definition of the view; and
resolving the reference to the element in response to a request to query the view, wherein resolving the reference comprises determining that data corresponding to the element is accessible for processing the query.