Systems and methods for a database engine in-process data provider

• US 8,112,383 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2004
• Issued: 02/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Acheson, Alazel, Ashwin, Shrinivas, Blakeley, Jose A., Carlin, Peter, Ismert, Erik, Kleinerman, Christian, Krishnamoorthy, Ganapathy Subramaniam, Nair, Girkumar
• Primary Examiner(s): PANNALA, SATHYANARAYA R
• Application Number:
  US10/776,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20050187944A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,919 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/103, 345/700, 717/126
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2438 Embedded query languages
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/284 Relational databases

Abstract

Various embodiments of the present invention enable functions, procedures, and triggers to be written in any of the .NET languages and executed by the RDBMS. User code can access data from the local or other SQL servers using the SQL Programming Model and both the SqlServer or SqlClient implementations respectively. Moreover, to improve upon the previous extensibility mechanism, a set of APIs (commonly known as “the in-process provider” or “inproc provider”) is utilized to provide efficient and easy to use data access while running inproc, a data access API that is an implementation of the ADO.net programming model.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

running, on a computer system, a database management system, the database management system configured to process queries generated in a native query language for the database management system;

running, on the computer system, a runtime environment configured to manage execution of intermediate language code;

establishing a connection to a client, the client associated with a set of database access privileges;

receiving, from the client, a query that invokes intermediate language code;

compiling by the runtime environment during a runtime of the database management system, the intermediate language code into an expression encoded in the native query language;

generating a context object including information comprising the set of database access privileges, a connection context of the client, a command context of the client, a transaction context of the client, a pipe context of the client, and a trigger context of the client;

exposing the context object to the database management system through a utilization of an in-process provider, the in-process provider keeps track of data obtained from the database management system that is referenced from the runtime environment and prevents access of the database management data outside a runtime environment execution frame;

executing the expression encoded in the native query language based on the context object; and

storing information indicative of a result of the query in memory.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

providing a cursor associated with the query.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

marshaling data between the runtime environment and the database management system.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

running an application operation selected from a group of operations comprising functions, procedures, and triggers is directly in the database management system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the in-process provider supports more than one pending executing command for the connection to the client.

6. A system for executing application code in a database management system (DBMS), the system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including instructions stored therein that upon execution cause the processor to;

run a database management system, the database management system configured to process queries generated in a native query language;

run a runtime environment configured to manage execution of intermediate language code;

establishing a connection to a client, the client associated with a set of database access privileges;

receive a query that invokes intermediate language code from the client;

compile by the runtime environment, the intermediate language code into an expression encoded in the native query language;

generate a context object including information comprising the set of database access privileges, a connection context of the client, a command context of the client, a transaction context of the client, a pipe context of the client, and a trigger context of the client;

expose the context object to the database management system through a utilization of an in-process provider, the in-process provider keeps track of data obtained from the database management system that is referenced from the runtime environment and prevents access of the database management data outside a runtime environment execution frame;

execute the expression encoded in the native query language based on the context object.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions that upon execution cause the computer system to:

provide a cursor for the query.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions that upon execution cause the computer system to:

marshal data between the runtime environment and the database management system.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein the memory further comprises instructions that upon execution cause the computer system to:

run an application operation selected from a group of operations comprising functions, procedures, and triggers encoded in the native query language directly in the database management system.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein the context object further comprises:

a command with a state execution context;

the transaction context of the client associated with a command;

a path through which requests and results may be sent or received between the client and the database management system; and

a forward-only cursor on top of statement execution results.

11. The system of claim 6, wherein the in-process provider supports for more than one pending executing command for the connection to the client.

12. A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-readable instructions stored thereon that upon execution by a processor of a computer system cause the computer system to:

run a database management system, the database management system configured to process queries generated in a native query language;

run a runtime environment configured to manage execution of intermediate language code;

establish a connection to a client, the client associated with a set of database access privileges;

receive a query that invokes intermediate language code from the client;

compile by the runtime environment, the intermediate language code into an expression encoded in the native query language;

generate a context object including the set of database access privileges, a connection context of a client, a command context of the client, a transaction context of the client, a pipe context of the client, and a trigger context of the client;

expose the context object to the database management system through a utilization of an in-process provider, the in-process provider keeps track of data obtained from the database management system that is referenced from the runtime environment and prevents access of the database management data outside a runtime environment execution frame; and

execute the expression encoded in the native query language based on the context object.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 further comprising instructions that upon execution cause the computer system to:

provide a cursor on any type of query executed.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 further comprising instructions that upon execution cause the computer system to:

marshal data between the runtime environment and the database management system.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12 further comprising instructions that upon execution cause the computer system to:

run an application operation selected from a group of operations comprising functions, procedures, and triggers encoded in the native query language directly in the database management system.

16. The computer-readable instructions of claim 12, wherein context object further comprises:

a command with a state execution context;

a transaction context associated with a command;

a path through which requests and results may be sent or received between the client and the database management system;

a trigger context, wherein the trigger results from an operation of the client; and

a forward-only cursor on ton of statement execution results.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the in-process provider supports more than one pending executing command for the connection to the client.