Patent ID: 7089265

Claim:
A method comprising performing a computer executed operation involving instructions, wherein the computer executed operation is at least one of: A) sending said instructions over transmission media; B) receiving said instructions over transmission media; C) storing said instructions onto the computer readable storage medium; and D) executing the instructions; wherein said instructions are instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of: in response to user input, storing data that associates a database operation with an event, the database operation altering data objects stored in a database of the database system; detecting when the event is caused by a triggering transaction conducted within the database system; inspecting the data to determine that the database operation has been associated with the event; and automatically performing the database operation independent of the triggering transaction, wherein automatically performing the database operation independent of the triggering transaction includes performing the database operation without notifying any user prior to executing the database operation.