On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:00:37PM -0600, Russ Brown wrote:
> See, this is why I was looking for some sort of 'official' definition
> of the term, to remove the ambiguity introduced by individual
> interpretation. :)
>
> Anyone know who came up with the term in the first place?
According to Date in _An Introduction to Database Systems_, 8th ed.,
the source of "ACID" is the 1983 paper "Principles of Transaction-Oriented
Database Recovery" by Theo Härder and Andreas Reuter. Date has some
interesting things to say about ACID:
So ACID is a nice acronym -- but do the concepts it represents
really stand up to close examination? In this section, we present
some evidence to suggest that the answer to this question is, in
general, _no_. (485)
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Michael Fuhr