On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 03:00:37PM -0600, Russ Brown wrote: > See, this is why I was looking for some sort of 'official' definition > of the term, to remove the ambiguity introduced by individual > interpretation. :) > > Anyone know who came up with the term in the first place? According to Date in _An Introduction to Database Systems_, 8th ed., the source of "ACID" is the 1983 paper "Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery" by Theo Härder and Andreas Reuter. Date has some interesting things to say about ACID: So ACID is a nice acronym -- but do the concepts it represents really stand up to close examination? In this section, we present some evidence to suggest that the answer to this question is, in general, _no_. (485) -- Michael Fuhr
