The Relational Data Base and Transactions

In a microsopicis world, there is this whole notion of data that is internal to your serv and data that is external. You mention in one of your papers that you look at it as durable state and session state. Can you elaborate on that? Well, the paper that you're talking about, i think, is mind your state for your state of mind. And so back in the day, and for a lot of systems still, if want to work with ae data base, you stand up and you get a a connection. And you get that connection and you go to the data base.