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Jim Gray


Born
in San Francisco, The United States
January 12, 1944

Died
January 28, 2007

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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,
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Average rating: 4.19 · 85 ratings · 5 reviews · 3 distinct works
Transaction Processing: Con...

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Inside Microsoft SQL Server...

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The Benchmark handbook: For...

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“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