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System and method for ensuring referential integrity for heterogeneously scoped references in an information management system

  • US 7,080,085 B1
  • Filed: 07/12/2000
  • Issued: 07/18/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer-implemented method for preventing dangling pointers in heterogeneously scoped links, comprising the acts of:

  • providing at least one heterogeneously scoped link (HSL) table in a non-RDBMS element communicating with at least one RDBMS, at least one table having a heterogeneously scoped link column, the HSL table being associated with the heterogeneously scoped link column; and

    accessing the HSL table to ensure referential integrity in an RDBMS.

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