At 06:35 PM 11/11/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>I took only a brief look at them, so i may be in a state of
>misunderstanding :)
>
>As I understand it, the patent is about generating/composing queries
>_before_
>submitting them to backend, not about query processing in the backend.
Yes, it's a query generation technique separate from the database server,
generating and executing SQL queries on a set of tables in order to satisfy
some goal.
Has nothing to do with the RDBMS itself.
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