Patent ID: 6029178
Filing Date: 2000-02-22
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for enabling movement of information in an enterprise computing system, the enterprise computing system comprising a plurality of computer systems, the method comprising:capturing changed data, wherein the changed data comprises changes being made to a source database;obtaining an edition level value of the source database;creating and storing a change record comprising the captured changed data in a log, wherein the change record includes an edition level value which identifies the edition level of the source database to which the changes are being made;initiating a data propagation operation to one or more target computer systems;obtaining an edition level value of each of the one or more target computer systems;wherein, for each target computer system, the method further comprises:comparing the edition level value comprised in the change record with the edition level value of the target computer system, wherein said comparing determines whether the target and source database edition level values match;propagating the change record to the target database in response to determining that the target and source database edition levels match;wherein the change record is not propagated in response to determining that the target and source database edition levels are different.