Patent ID: 11907251
Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 43:
44. The computer system of claim 36, wherein the set of acts for forwarding the request to perform the operation comprise:
forwarding the request to perform the operation from the client to the local database server that stores thereupon the at least the first portion of the distributed database;
forwarding the request to perform the operation from the local database server to the one or more additional remote database servers based at least in part on the one or more additional database links comprising the remote LOB locator, wherein the remote LOB locator comprises a database link count that indicate a total number of servers that are to be traversed to reach the LOB; and
forwarding the request to perform the operation from the one or more additional remote database servers to a remote database server of the one or more database servers based at least in part on the database link associated with the remote database server, wherein the operation comprises a random access to the data in the column for the LOB.