continuing to accrue evidence for my long-standing theory that the answer is *always* in Phil Bernstein et al.'s 1987 book, which continues to be free online (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/philbe/book/)

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Phil Bernstein at Microsoft Research

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@lindsey It is an excellent text. I don't think I've seen a better glossary in any other CC or DB system book.
@Saleh I look at it every time I need to go back to basics, which is often
@lindsey Quite handy reference.
@lindsey Also found his work on the topic of consistency to be quite interesting.