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Cascade feature for creating records in a database

  • US 20060136465A1
  • Filed: 12/16/2004
  • Published: 06/22/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of generating new records by a database program that serves as an interface to a database, said method comprising;

  • receiving, by said database program, a request to enter data in a non-existing record in said database, wherein said non-existing record has not be created in said database, but can be created in a first table which is related in a relationship to a second table and at least one intermediate table between said first and second tables in said relationship;

    generating, by said database program, a first record in said first table;

    entering, by said database program, said data into a field of said first record;

    determining, by said database program, whether one or more values need to be propagated between said first, second, and at least one intermediate table; and

    propagating, by said database program, one or more values between said first, second, and at least one intermediate table when said determining determines that one or more values need to be propagated between said first, second, and at least one intermediate table, thereby ensuring that said relationship exists between said first record and one or more records of said second table and at least one intermediate table.

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