DATA MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND DATA MANAGEMENT METHOD

• US 20150026221A1
• Filed: 06/27/2014
• Published: 01/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/19/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Miyoshi, Naoki, Shimno, Akio, Fujishima, Kazutoshi, Otsuka, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 10,534,766 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/803
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/211 Schema design and management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/23 Updating
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2365 Ensuring data consistency and integrity

Abstract

A data management apparatus manages a database that has a plurality of items each of which has item attribute data. The data management apparatus includes determining, when an update request to the database is accepted, whether an item that is designated in the update request is included in the items, adding, when the designated item is not included in the items, the designated item to the items, and setting a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of the designated item to a second state that is different from a first state to which a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of an item approved as an item of the database is set.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing therein a data management program that causes a computer to execute a process comprising:

determining, when an update request to a database is accepted, the database having a plurality of items each of which has item attribute data, whether an item that is designated in the update request is included in the items;

adding, when the designated item is not included in the items, the designated item to the items; and

setting a definition setting flag included in the item attribute data of the designated item to a second state that is different from a first state to which a definition setting flag included in the item attribute data of an item approved as an item of the database is set.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the process further comprises

outputting, when a reference request to the item attribute data of the database is accepted, item attribute data of items in the second state in addition to items in the first state when it is in a reference mode for referring to items including an item having the definition setting flag which is the second state.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the process further comprises

changing, when a change request to the definition setting flag is accepted for a predetermined item, a set state to a state different from the set state, according to the change request.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 3, wherein the changing includes changing, when a change request to change the definition setting flag to the first state is accepted for the predetermined item, the second state, which has been set, to the first state.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium according to claim 3, wherein the changing include changing, when a change request to change the definition setting flag to the second state is accepted for the predetermined item, the first state, which has been set, to the second state.

6. A data management apparatus comprising:

a circuitry; and

a memory storing a database that has a plurality of items each of which has item attribute data, wherein the circuitry executes;

to determine, when an update request to the database is accepted, whether an item that is designated in the update request is included in the items;

to add, when the designated item is not included in the items, the designated item to the items; and

to set a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of the designated item to a second state that is different from a first state to which a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of an item approved as an item of the database is set.

7. A data management method performed by a computer, the method comprising:

determining, when an update request to a database is accepted, the database having a plurality of items each of which has item attribute data, whether an item that is designated in the update request is included in the items, using a circuitry;

adding, when the designated item is not included in the items, the designated item to the items, using the circuitry; and

setting a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of the designated item to a second state that is different from a first state to which a definition setting flag included in item attribute data of an item approved as an item of the database is set, using the circuitry.