To provide a computer-implemented method for use in maintaining recency of a projection index of a plurality of database objects.

The computer-implemented method includes steps of creating (302) a projection index representative of a connection between a first database object and at least a second database object, determining (308) an entity dependency between the first database object and at least the second database object, determining (316) a path dependency between the first database object and at least the second database object, and updating (320) the projection index in response to a modification of one or both of the entity dependency and the path dependency.