Transactions

Transactions

• A transaction takes the DB from one consistent state to another
  • Atomicity
  • Recovery
  • Serialization

• New needs:
  • long transactions
    • lasting for hours / days
    • performance, locks...
    • one solution: versions
  • nested transactions
    • recovery / atomicity
    • generally not to be found (yet…)
  • shared transactions

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