US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 4 for "Transactional query processing in external tables" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,458, issued on March 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Transactional query processing in external tables" was invented by Margaret M. Susairaj (Sugar Land, Texas) and Dmitry Mikhailovich Potapov (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Consistent External Table Access maintains transactional consistency for queries that access external tables stored in a DBFS. This ability is achieved by bypassing the OS. One or more database processes executing a query that access an external table stored in a DBFS access the database-file table like other database tables in the DBMS that can be access...