Inventors:
Herbert Dennis Hunt - San Francisco CA, US
John Randall West - Sunnyvale CA, US
Marshall Ashby Gibbs - Clarendon Hills IL, US
Bradley Michael Griglione - Lake Zurich IL, US
Gregory David Neil Hudson - Riverside IL, US
Andrea Basilico - Como, IT
Arvid C. Johnson - Frankfort IL, US
Cheryl G. Bergeon - Arlington Heights IL, US
Craig Joseph Chapa - Lake Barrington IL, US
Alberto Agostinelli - Milano, IT
Jay Alan Yusko - Lombard IL, US
Trevor Mason - Bolingbrook IL, US
Ting Liu - Downers Grove IL, US
International Classification:
G06F 17/30
Abstract:
A method for reading the altered data field in accordance with the field alteration data is provided. The method may include altering a data field characteristic of a data field in a data table, saving the field alteration datum associated with the alteration in a data storage facility, submitting a query requiring the use of the data field in the dataset and reading the altered data field in accordance with the field alteration data. The alteration may generate a field alteration datum and a component of the query may consist of reading the field alteration data.