Web-based user interface for searching metadata-driven relational databases
December 06, 2010 at 10:17 PM | categories: Uncategorized | View Comments
With some embarrassment, I concede that my name is now on a software patent assigned to Oracle. Apparently it was granted at the end of last month.
Web-based user interface for searching metadata-driven relational databases
It wouldn't surprise me if there is prior art for this - it's basically a SQL query builder driven by Javascript and an in-page data dictionary. Certainly we had all seen query builders before. But when we built the application, back in 2003, it seemed innovative to feed the query schema into a web page, with JavaScript that then presented the options to the user.
Web-based user interface for searching metadata-driven relational databases
It wouldn't surprise me if there is prior art for this - it's basically a SQL query builder driven by Javascript and an in-page data dictionary. Certainly we had all seen query builders before. But when we built the application, back in 2003, it seemed innovative to feed the query schema into a web page, with JavaScript that then presented the options to the user.