Patent ID: 8521706
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: concurrently maintaining metadata defining an old edition of one or more objects within a database and metadata defining a new edition of the same one or more objects within the database; concurrently maintaining as a view, referenced by a particular view label, an old view edition of the view, associated by said metadata with the old edition, and a new view edition of the view, associated by said metadata with the new edition; executing a first query that references the view by the particular view label and that references the view column by the view column label, wherein executing the first query includes: concurrently to executing the first query, executing a second query that references the view by the particular view label and that references the view column by the view column label, wherein executing the second query includes: wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.