Patent ID: 7035859
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a relational database management system (RDBMS), a method of processing related records comprising; an RDDMS receiving a plurality of related records; the RDBMS inserting said plurality of related records into a single table of the RDBMS; the RDBMS associating said plurality of related records as a set within said single table using a published function of said RDBMS; the RDAMS receiving a triggering event from an application program, wherein the application program specifies one of the related records and a processing action to be performed by the RDBMS against the specified record; and responsive to the triggering event, the RDBMS automatically purging non-specified ones of the related records, wherein said published function is accessible to front-end systems, wherein each of said front end systems is configured to identity said plurality of records as a defined set using said published function, and wherein a published function of said RDBMS also permits each of the front end systems to disassociate selected records from said set.