Patent ID: 7302441

Claim:
A data processing system for providing general user availability while integrity processing of rolled-in data is deferred and performed incrementally, the data processing system comprising: a data warehouse administration module for administering a data warehouse to comprise: a table dividable into portions for containing rows of rolled-in data; a first and a second delimiter delimiting the start and the end respectively of each portion; a metadata element having an entry corresponding to the start and end delimiters delimiting each portion; a third delimiter for delimiting, between the first delimiter and the third delimiter, a sub-portion of the portion; and an operations management module having operation mechanisms for performing operations on the data warehouse responsive to the delimiters, wherein the operation mechanisms include an integrity processing mechanism that uses the first and the third delimiters to identify the sub-portion and thereby determine which data requires integrity processing and further performs integrity processing on the rolled-in data contained in the sub-portion.