Patent ID: 7970746

Claim:
A system that facilitates productivity of database management, comprising: an interface component comprising hardware that accepts a high-level intent structured in declarative language, wherein the intent is expressed in terms of a user's intent and are not expressed in terms of actual configuration setting that should be changed to facilitate such intent, and represents a request that a target set be brought into compliance with a policy, wherein the high-level intent is expressed declaratively as a sentence to specify results and not specific actions or settings, such that the intent must be inferred and such that slight deviations in actions or settings can nonetheless be made to match the high-level intent, wherein the high-level intent is expressed as a sentence and includes subcomponents, each of the subcomponents comprising a single word or phrase included in words of the sentence; a declarative management component comprising hardware that interprets the high-level intent and determines low-level settings to configure individual objects using specialized and distinct semantics for each individual object to cause the system to brought into compliance with the policy by recognizing keyword subcomponents of the sentence and performing one or more functions on keyword subcomponents of the sentence, including the single words or phrases of the sentence, to determine user intent and one or more low-level settings, without further input from the user at least in part by identifying target elements that constitute an application, packaging the target elements as a target set, and deploying the application to additional systems; and a machine-learning component comprising hardware that automates at least one function of the declarative management component.