Patent 7421458 was granted and assigned to Informatica on September, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods and systems for creating version-stamps of database objects and for tracking, querying, retrieving, and deploying such versioned database objects in enterprise databases, data marts, or data warehouses. The database objects may be interrelated and may reference one another according to their accurate versions.