US Patent Issued to SAP IRELAND on Sept. 15 for "High speed database schema change detection" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,328, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SAP IRELAND Ltd. (Dublin).

"High speed database schema change detection" was invented by Paul Sheedy (Dublin) and Paul O'Connor (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments describe a technique for database schema migration that minimizes queries to the runtime database. A technique is described for detecting whether design time metadata has changed during a schema migration without performing a database query for runtime metadata and comparing the design time metadata with the runtime metadata. The technique may improve performance since it aims at minimizing the number of times the da...