Managing Network Access to a Distributed Database
Daniel Sagalowicz, Paul H. Morris · Berkeley Workshop · 1977
Abstract : This paper describes a program, FAM--for File Access Manager--, used to access to data distributed over a computer network. FAM is part of a system which allows a casual user to express queries in a restricted subset of English, about a database of fourteen files stored redundantly on several Datacomputers. FAM is responsible for the data distribution aspects of the whole system: it establishes the network connections, decides which files in redundant groups to use, opens and closes them as needed. This paper presents some of the techniques which are used and discusses the limitations of this particular approach.