Patent ID: 8874519

Claim:
A method for restoring a table in a database comprising: identifying a copy of first table data after completion of a backup process of the database, wherein the database comprises at least a first table and a second table, the first table data comprises data stored in the first table, second table data comprises data stored in the second table, the backup process produces a backup of the first table data, the backup of the first table data comprises copies of a plurality of table data blocks, the copies of the plurality of table data blocks comprise the copy of the first table data, and the identifying identifies the copy of the first table data in the backup of the first table data; and generating a command for restoring the first table data from the backup of the first table data, wherein the command is generated prior to a detection of a request to restore the first table data and in response to completion of the backup process producing the backup of the first table data, the command is configured to be executed in response to the detection of the request to restore the first table data without restoring the second table data, and the generating the command comprises: accessing the copy of the first table data in the backup of the first table data, wherein the accessing is performed based on the identifying, parsing a portion of the copy of the first table data, and including the parsed portion of the copy of the first table data in the command.