Apparatus for Accessing Data from a Database as a File

Abstract

An Apparatus is provided for allowing data to be operated upon by external file-based programs that are designed to work on files in a file system. The invention provides for an apparatus comprising a processor and memory, configured to perform enrolling File I/O access to a data object in a database for a client application by retrieving from the database a set of data describing a data object, generating a filename using the retrieved data and a file extension supplied by the client application, and correlating the filename with the data object. Another apparatus is provided, comprising a processor and memory, configured to perform receiving, from a program, File I/O requests, specifying a filename, that perform File I/O actions on a file in a file system, translating the received File I/O requests into Data Operations that perform equivalent File I/O actions on data in a database, and executing the Data Operations on a data object in the database, that has been enrolled and correlated with the filename.

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