Patent ID: 7502776
Filing Date: 2009-03-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a connection between a source database and a target database, comprising: receiving a connection request from a source database, the connection request comprising an object link, the object link comprising object information specifying a target object and further comprising database information specifying a target database, wherein the target database constitutes a cluster database; using object-to-instance mapping information to identify a specific target database instance located in a cluster for the target database, the target database instance containing an instance of the target object, and the specific target database instance being identified from the cluster which comprises a plurality of target database instances each of which comprises an instance of the same target database; and establishing a connection between the source database and the specific target database instance, wherein the connection request does not specify the specific target database instance in the cluster to establish the connection.