At 03:56 PM 6/23/00 +1000, Daniel_Work@... wrote:

>A while ago I read some articles written by Bill Todd about Interbase's MGA
>and record versioning in general that were published in Delphi Informat. I
>wrote to Bill to ask him if could put the articles up on his web site
>http://www.dbginc.com/pubs.html which he kindly did.
>
>Would someone who is familiar with the internals of Interbase like to
>comment on how technically accurate these arcticles are?
>

Very accurate. Missed the motivation for sweep (reducing the
number of transact states to be copied at transaction start
time) but otherwise pretty much dead on.

Jim Starkey