Administration and Autonomy in a Replication-Transparent Distributed DBMS
VLDB '88 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
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The early design of a Data Base Management System (DBMS) must include a specification of the functions associated with administering the system, so that subsequent activities, such as documentation, training, and staffing, can occur. Therefore, this paper undertakes a careful definition of administrative tasks for a Data Base Management System (DBMS) in a distributed computer environment. The paper first discusses a general framework for administering a distributed DBMS, and then the paper presents a specific listing of administrative functions. While the above work is based on a specific system under development at Bell Laboratories, the paper concludes with several comments extending this work to other types of distributed systems.