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From: alessio@cs.columbia.edu (Eduardo Alessio)
Subject: Re: Determing Table Structure
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.171537.29897@cs.columbia.edu>
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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 91 17:15:37 GMT

Rao writes:

>Hi netters,

>I am a regular reader of this newsgroup.  A gamut of areas have been discussed
>so far in this newsgroup viz., pc databases, databases for larger machines, 
>distributed databases, distributed transaction processing, query languages 

>With the increasing number of "Transaction Processing" articles showing up
>in this newsgroup and the budding "UNIX OLTP" market, I feel there could be
>another newsgroup exclusively for "OLTP (On Line Transaction Processing)".

>The potential discussions in this newgroup for example could be

>	- distributed transaction processing applications
>	- TUXEDO, CICS, TRANSARC etc.,
>	- network related issues in OLTP environments
>	- large scale database issues related to OLTP
>	- UNIX OLTP, open system solutions
>	- any other relevant topics to OLTP
	
>......

	I also support this proposition, but not only for Unix environments
but for any.  I currently work with Guardian O.S. in the field of OLTP and
Networks, feeling interesting topics could come up that can enrich our
developments, not only at work, but also for future research under the
academic environment.

	My vote......., thumbs up!!


Eduardo Alessio
alessio@hudson.columbia.edu