Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!dafuller From: dafuller@sequent.UUCP (David Fuller) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Needed: Literature on two-phase commit, distributed databases, etc. Message-ID: <52135@sequent.UUCP> Date: 1 Feb 91 21:29:27 GMT References: Reply-To: dafuller@sequent.UUCP (David Fuller) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 34 Readings in Database Systems, edited by Michael Stonebreaker (Morgan- Kaufmann) would be a good start. If they really know nothing about DBMS, An Introduction to Database Systems by CJ Date would be crucial. In article barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: >I am looking for literature describing distributed databases, and the >problems inherent in them. > >My brother is working for a company who thinks building a distributed >database is simple. As he will have to maintain this product, he is >very concerned! > >The developers (if you can call them that) want to hack together >something that has pieces of the database distributed across different >machines. They don't seem to understand concepts like two-phase >commit, and how to keep distributed databases from getting out of >sync. And if they do, how to recover. The answer is "Oh, I doubt that >would happen." > >Therefore I am looking for some literature that describes all of the >problems a distributed database should watch out for. Or else a list >of features such a database should have, with an explanation WHY these >are needed. > >Send me E-mail - to keep the noise level down. Thanks. >-- >Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett -- Dave Fuller Sequent Computer Systems Think of this as the hyper-signature. (708) 318-0050 (humans) It means all things to all people. dafuller@sequent.com