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Subject: Re: looking for reference...
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 10:53:50 EDT
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> 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