Patent ID: 7693847

Claim:
A method for mapping business concepts related to the processing of a plurality of requests on a database system to database system feature settings, including: delaying submission of a portion of the plurality of requests to the database system for processing based on rules; mapping each request submitted to the database system for processing to database feature settings by mapping business concepts associated with each request using workload definitions, wherein the workload definitions include workload classification attributes, workload throttling attributes, workload exception attributes, workload prioritization attributes, and workload enforcement prioritization attributes; wherein the workload classification attributes include, for each of one or more workload definitions, one or more business concepts associated with requests that will identify requests to be classified to that workload, and wherein the workload throttling attributes include, for each of one or more workload definitions one or more attributes of requests classified to that workload that determine if such requests are rejected, throttled, or run with special privileges; and providing a tree view of the mapping which includes: a first node for the rules; a second node for the workload definitions; and a third node for priority scheduling.