Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!ames!lll-lcc!well!mjr From: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: looking for reference... Message-ID: <3495@well.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 00:58:42 EDT Article-I.D.: well.3495 Posted: Sun Jul 5 00:58:42 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 08:36:47 EDT Reply-To: mjr@well.UUCP (Matthew Rapaport) Distribution: world Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito CA Lines: 11 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