DEFERRED CONTROL OF SURROGATE KEY GENERATION IN A DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING ARCHITECTURE
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Abstract
An event reporting system includes a computational component 228 operable (a) to receive notification of a change to an attribute of an entity, the entity, prior to the change, being associated with a first surrogate key, and (b) to defer the use of a second surrogate key for the entity until a selected time. The second surrogate key was generated to reflect the change.
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16 Claims
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1-9. -9. (canceled)
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10. A method for correlating information, comprising:
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receiving an event notification, the event notification comprising event information and a natural key; mapping the natural key to a normalized key; and selecting a first hint for the normalized key, the first hint indicating which of a plurality of surrogate keys associated with the normalized key will be used in a record corresponding to the event information. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16-24. -24. (canceled)
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