Patent ID: 9424287
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A tangible article of manufacture comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least: monitor a database operation associated with a logical table to detect insertion, in the logical table or a different table, of a row that contains a column having a value not already contained in the column in the logical table or the different table, the monitoring of the database operation to detect the value not already contained in the column of the logical table or the different table initiated in response to a table creation command that includes a partition-by constraint specifying the column; and in response to detecting the value not already contained in the column of the logical table or the different table, create a next partition for the logical table to include rows of the logical table or the different table that include the value in the column by: in response to receiving a template-creation command, storing a template in a storage device for subsequent retrieval by a template name specified by the template-creation command, wherein the template includes a database command with one or more symbolic placeholders; and in response to receiving a template-instantiation command, instantiating the template by: