US 11,928,129 B1
Cloning catalog objects
Ashish Motivala, Foster City, CA (US); and Benoit Dageville, San Carlos, CA (US)
Assigned to Snowflake Inc., Bozeman, MT (US)
Filed by SNOWFLAKE INC., Bozeman, MT (US)
Filed on Dec. 20, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/084,795.
Application 18/084,795 is a continuation of application No. 17/827,310, filed on May 27, 2022, granted, now 11,544,287, issued on Jan. 3, 2023.
Application 17/827,310 is a continuation of application No. 17/491,357, filed on Sep. 30, 2021, granted, now 11,347,770, issued on May 31, 2022.
Application 17/491,357 is a continuation of application No. 16/814,711, filed on Mar. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,157,515, issued on Oct. 26, 2021.
Application 16/814,711 is a continuation of application No. 16/741,693, filed on Jan. 13, 2020, granted, now 10,866,966, issued on Dec. 15, 2020.
Application 16/741,693 is a continuation of application No. 15/171,859, filed on Jun. 2, 2016, granted, now 10,534,793, issued on Jan. 14, 2020.
Application 15/171,859 is a continuation in part of application No. 14/518,884, filed on Oct. 20, 2014, granted, now 10,366,102, issued on Jul. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/941,986, filed on Feb. 19, 2014.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/27 (2019.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a memory; and
one or more processors, operatively coupled to the memory, the one or more processors to:
create a second catalog object by mapping a second portion of second metadata of the second catalog object to same data of a same data file as a first portion of first metadata of a first catalog object; and
in response to a data storage or data retrieval request directed to the second catalog object, delete data associated with the second portion of the second metadata from the second catalog object independently of the first catalog object.