Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

890.0. "Digital Technical Journal" by AKOCOA::HAGGERTY (GIA EIS/SWS, Acton MA.) Fri Mar 15 1991 21:33

	I think that everyone should pick up a copy of this quarter's Digital
Technical Journal (Vol 3, no 1, Winter 1991).   It's entitled:

	"Transaction Processing, Databases and Fault-Tolerant Systems"

	DEC documentation number is EY-F588E-DP; usual ordering channels for
this issue.  Subscription orders on the net can be sent to RDVAX::JOURNAL
containing your name, badge, MS, CC, etc, etc.

	Table of Contents include:

		8 Foreword
		Carlos G. Borgialli

		10 DECdta - Digital's Distributed Transaction Processing
			Architecture
		Philip A. Bernstein, William T. Emberton, and Vijay Trehan

		18 Digital's Transaction Processing Monitors
		Thomas G. Speer and Mark W. Storm

		33 Transaction Management Support in the VMS Operating
			System Kernel
		William A. Laing, James E. Johnson, and Robert V. Landau

		45 Performance Evaluation of Transaction Processing Systems
		Walter H. Kohler, Yun-Ping Hsu, Thomas K. Rogers, and 
		Wael H. Bahaa-El-Din

		58 Tools and Techniques for Preliminary Sizing of
			Transaction Processing Applications
		William Z. Zahavi, Frances A. Habib, and Kenneth J. Omahen

		65 Database Availability for Transaction Processing
		Ananth Raghavan and T.K. Rengarajan

		70 Designing an Optimized Transaction Commit Protocol
		Peter M. Spiro, Ashok M. Joshi, and T.K. Rengarajan

		79 Verification of the First Fault-tolerant VAX System
		William F. Bruckert, Carlos Alonso, and James M. Melvin