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    <title>Where am I?</title>
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      <title>Web-based user interface for searching metadata-driven relational databases</title>
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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.
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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.<br/><br/>
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