Patent ID: 9460142
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer implemented rename detection method, comprising: comparing, by at least one processor, metadata of a first version of a database with metadata of a second version of the database, wherein the metadata of the first version is associated with a first column of the first version of the database, and wherein the metadata of the second version is associated with a second column of the second version of the database; identifying, by the at least one processor, commonly-named columns between the first and the second versions of the database based on the comparison, wherein the commonly-named columns between the first and second versions are different versions of the same columns; comparing, by the at least one processor, a data type of the first column of the first version with a data type of the second column of the second version, wherein the identifying determined that the first and second columns are not commonly named; and responsive to the comparing of the data types, determining, by the at least one processor, whether the first column has been renamed to a name of the second column based on the comparison of the data types of the first and the second columns to enable the at least one processor to identify and log a corresponding modification to transform the first column of the first version into the second column of the second version when the database of the first version is to be converted to the second version.