redbookcover.gif (13955 bytes) Readings in Database Systems, 3rd Edition

Stonebraker & Hellerstein, eds.

Normal Execution of an Xact

Series of reads & writes, followed by commit or abort.

We will assume that write is atomic on disk.
In practice, additional details to deal with non-atomic writes.

Strict 2PL.

STEAL, NO-FORCE buffer management, with Write-Ahead Logging.

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