The present invention is a method and system for incrementally maintaining a database having at least one materialized view based on at least one table. When changes to the table are received, a change table based on the received changes is generated. The generated change table is propagated upwards...http://www.google.fr/patents/US6484159?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US6484159 - Method and system for incremental database maintenance
Method and system for incremental database maintenance