Related Data Dependencies

A computer-implemented method for use in maintaining currency of a projection index of a plurality of database objects. The computer-implemented method includes creating the projection index representative of a connection between a first database object and at least a second database object, determining an entity dependency between the first database object and at least the second database object, determining a path dependency between the first database object and at least the second database object, and updating the projection index in response to a modification of one or both of the entity dependency and the path dependency.