An embodiment of the invention allows a software developer or administrator to use their knowledge and/or development of a particular application, to optimize the performance of data access and updates to the database. In order to do this, an embodiment of the invention makes use of the developers knowledge...http://www.google.com/patents/US6898587?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6898587 - System and method for performing commutative operations in data access systems