Data alignment technology

A system for aligning tables, comprising:

• a microprocessor coupled to a memory, wherein the microprocessor is programmed to align tables by:
• determining, using a microprocessor, correspondence among i) groups in a first version of one or more groups of related tables and ii) groups in a second version of one or more groups of related tables, wherein the tables have schema and table names and the determining correspondence among groups in the first and second versions includes:
• matching groups that have matching tables, wherein the matching tables have matching schema and table names;
• displaying a user interface on a display device, wherein the displaying includes displaying first and second portions of the user interface;
• displaying a group name list for the one or more groups of the first version in the first user interface portion;
• displaying a group name list for the one or more groups of the second version in the second user interface portion;
• and
• displaying a table name list of one or more tables within each respectively displayed group, wherein within each group of the first version, the one or more table names are in visual alignment with respective corresponding one or more table names of the respective corresponding group of the second version, wherein responsive to user selection of one of the versions for governing the aligning of the tables and responsive to a group in the other version's portion of the user interface corresponding to multiple groups in the one portion of the user interface, the displaying of the group names in the other version's portion includes:
• segmenting a group in the other portion of the user interface into group segments and displaying each segment in the other portion of the user interface in visual alignment with the segment's corresponding group in the one version's portion of the user interface.

A computer readable storage medium having executable program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a microprocessor to align tables by:

• determining correspondence among i) groups in a first version of one or more groups of related tables and ii) groups in a second version of one or more groups of related tables, wherein the tables have schema and table names and the determining correspondence among groups in the first and second versions includes:
• determining, using a microprocessor, correspondence among i) groups in a first version of one or more groups of related tables and ii) groups in a second version of one or more groups of related tables, wherein the tables have schema and table names and the determining correspondence among groups in the first and second versions includes:
• matching groups that have matching tables, wherein the matching tables have matching schema and table names;
• displaying a user interface on a display device, wherein the displaying includes displaying first and second portions of the user interface;
• displaying a group name list for the one or more groups of the first version in the first user interface portion;
• displaying a group name list for the one or more groups of the second version in the second user interface portion;
• and
• displaying a table name list of one or more tables within each respectively displayed group, wherein within each group of the first version, the one or more table names are in visual alignment with respective corresponding one or more table names of the respective corresponding group of the second version, wherein responsive to user selection of one of the versions for governing the aligning of the tables and responsive to a group in the other version's portion of the user interface corresponding to multiple groups in the one portion of the user interface, the displaying of the group names in the other version's portion includes:
• segmenting a group in the other portion of the user interface into group segments and displaying each segment in the other portion of the user interface in visual alignment with the segment's corresponding group in the one version's portion of the user interface.