Database navigation

• Main Authors: MCCORMACK MICHAEL J, NARAMORE THERESA A, MILLER ANDREW R, BRYANT CHRISTOPHER W, KROUT KELLY M, COVINGTON CLINTON D, SIGLER JONATHAN M, COGGINS ROBERT E, HOUGH DANIEL, GARDNER SCOTT T
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 06.07.2006
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Database interaction is facilitated by graphically presenting database objects in groups that are not necessarily dictated by object types of the database objects. In an example implementation, database navigation is facilitated by determining object dependency groups for a database in which each object dependency group corresponds to a database source object and includes at least those database objects that depend directly or indirectly from the corresponding database source object. When these data source object-based dependency groups are graphically displayed, selecting a database object thereof provides access thereto. In another example implementation, a user can designate an attribute associated with database objects by which the database objects are to be grouped. Thus, the database objects are grouped by various values that the user-designated associated attribute takes. These designated-attribute-based value-driven groups may also be graphically displayed to enable navigation of and access to the different database objects assigned to them.