Patent 11928108 was granted and assigned to Snowflake (Real Estate Company) on March, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Aspects of the present disclosure address systems, methods, and devices for tracking object dependencies in a cloud database system. An object dependency created between a referencing object and a referenced object is detected. Based on detecting the object dependency, a dependency record is generated. The dependency record includes dependency information describing the object dependency between the reference object and the referenced object. The dependency record is stored in a database of dependency records.