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Jim Gray

Born

in San Francisco, The United States

January 12, 1944

Died

January 28, 2007

Genre

Computers & Internet, Professional & Technical

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James Nicholas "Jim" Gray (born January 12, 1944; lost at sea January 28, 2007; declared deceased May 16, 2012) was an American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998 "for seminal contributions to database and transaction processing research and technical leadership in system implementation."

Gray was born in San Francisco, California, the second child of a mother who was a teacher and a father in the U.S. Army; the family moved to Rome where Gray spent most of the first three years of his life, learning to speak Italian before English. The family then moved to Virginia, spending about four years there, until Gray's parents divorced, after which he returned to San Francisco with his mother. His father, an amateur inventor, ...more

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Average rating: 4.19 · 85 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) 4.39 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 by Kalen Delaney, Jim Gray (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 39 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Benchmark handbook: For database and transaction processing systems (The Morgan Kaufmann series in data management systems) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Jim Gray (?)

“Don't be fooled by the many books on complexity or by the many complex and arcane algorithms you find in this book or elsewhere. Although there are no textbooks on simplicity, simple systems work and complex don't.”
― James Nicholas "Jim" Gray

tags: systems

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