US Patent Issued to SAP on May 5 for "Preparation of a transactionally consistent database clone during a downtime optimized database conversion" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,632, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Preparation of a transactionally consistent database clone during a downtime optimized database conversion" was invented by Lars-Eric Biewald (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes starting on a source database (DB), a software update manager (SUM). DB triggers and log tables are created on the source DB and by the SUM. Creation of a clone DB is initiated, where the clone DB is a clone of the source DB. Using connection data to the clone DB, a connection to the clone DB is tested. Using the SUM and the connection data to...