Patent 7269595 was granted and assigned to Unisys on September, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The invention provides a system and method for reducing the amount of downtime during a database reorganization. The invention provides a method whereby data values are unloaded from a table in a database, stored in a substantially original format in another location within the database whilst the database is modified, and reloaded into the modified table.