Is there life outside transactions?: writing the transaction processing book

Authors:
Andreas Reuter
Affiliations:
European Media Laboratory, Heidelberg
Venue:
ACM SIGMOD Record - Tribute to honor Jim Gray
Year:
2008

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Abstract

In this article I will reflect on the writing of "Transaction Processing -- Concepts and Techniques" [1], which appeared at Morgan Kaufmann Publishers in 1992. The process of writing had many aspects of a typical software project: In the end, the book was more than twice as thick as we had planned, it covered only 3/4 of the material that we wanted to cover, and completing it took much longer than we had anticipated. Nevertheless, it was a moderate success and served as a basic reference for many developers in the industry for at least 10 years after its publication. It was translated to Chinese and Japanese, and occasionally one still finds references to it -- despite the fact that (apart from simple bug fixes) there has been no technical update of the material, and the book deals with "outdated" subjects like transaction processing and client/server architectures.