Patent ID: 8458706
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. Computer apparatus for use with a database management system and database, the computer apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, the computer apparatus configured to provide a first task process and a second task process, each task process being apportioned a different section of the memory when in use, wherein the computer apparatus is configured to respond to the database management system, the computer apparatus being instructed to carry out a first task and a second task in series on a section of data, by: (a) instructing the first task process to begin the first task on a first part of the section of data in the database, and (b) after the first task process on the first part of the section of the data is complete, instructing: wherein each task process has a task queue of tasks, the processor defines a governance queue comprising a list of tasks which the database management system has been instructed to carry out, the processor configured to assign tasks from the governance queue to the task queue of the first task process, the governance queue comprising the first and second tasks on the first part of the section of data, and when the first task has been carried out the first task process is configured to check its task queue and carry out the next task listed.