
Index
A
active hub, 46
agents, 112
allocate operation, 50
all-or-nothing property, of a transaction, 107
alternate keys, 2
APPC (Advanced Program-to-Program
Communications), 50–51
AppleTalk, 51
application layer, 48
architecture, of distributed DBMSs
client/server system, 87–93
multi-database system (MDBS), 97–101
peer-to-peer distributed system, 93–97
reference, 94–95
schemas, 94–95
ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency
NETwork), 52, 243
atomicity, 107
authorization, defi ned, 219
authorization matrix, 220
availability, defi ned, 155
B
backbone, 46
basic TO algorithm, 132–133
biased protocol, 130
binding process, 232
bond energy algorithm (BEA), 65
Boyce–Codd normal ...