Patent ID: 7421447

Claim:
A database construction method of constructing a database in a database management system provided in a predetermined computer and used by a plurality of applications, wherein said database management system implements said database construction method comprising: inputting a set of database configuration information containing execution environment and configuration of the database from a first application; confirming whether a set of database configuration information already inputted from a second application different from the first application is stored in memory means provided in said predetermined computer or not; adjusting contents of the set of database configuration information inputted from the first application and contents of the set of database configuration information already inputted from the second application, and constructing the database in accordance with contents of a set of the adjusted database configuration information in common to the first and second applications if the set of already inputted database configuration information is determined to be stored as a result of the confirmation, thereby to avoid presence of sets of database configuration information specific to said plurality of applications; and constructing the database in accordance with contents of the set of database configuration information inputted from the first application as the set of adjusted database configuration information in common to the first and second applications if the set of already inputted database configuration information is determined not to be stored as a result of the confirmation.