mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport) (07/05/87)
Who is Jim Gray refered to in #310 of comp.databases as the originator (?) of the "degree" distinction in consistency theory? I have looked for some article by anyone with name J. Gray in both Management Contents' and NTIS databases and find no one having anything to do with DBMS consistency theory. Can someone pass me a pointer to these seminal articles? mjr@well CIS 70371,255 SOURCE BEC872 Matthew Rapaport
vassos@utcsri.UUCP (07/06/87)
> Who is Jim Gray refered to in #310 of comp.databases as the originator > (?) of the "degree" distinction in consistency theory? [...] > Can someone pass me a pointer to these seminal articles? The main article on "degrees of consistency" is Gray, Lorie, Putzulu and Traiger, "Granularity of locks and degrees of consistency in a shared database", in G.M. Nijssen (ed.), Modeling in database management systems, North Holland, 1976 (originally issued as IBM Research Report RJ 3066, San Jose Research Center, Sept. 1975). Other very important (in my opinion) articles by this group of people (who were among the architects of System-R, in the context of which this work was done) are Eswaran, Gray, Lorie and Traiger, "The notions of consistency and predicate locks in a database system", CACM, Nov. 1976. and, Gray, "Notes on database operating systems", in Operating Systems: an advanced course, Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (Vol. 60), 1978. -- Vassos Hadzilacos vassos@csri.toronto.edu