《Database System Concepts Course Introduction》ch15.pptVIP

Chapter 15: Transactions Chapter 15: Transactions Transaction Concept Transaction State Concurrent Executions Serializability Recoverability Implementation of Isolation Testing for Serializability. Transaction Concept A transaction is a unit of program execution that accesses and possibly updates various data items. A transaction must see a consistent database. During transaction execution the database may be temporarily inconsistent. When the transaction completes successfully (is committed), the database must be consistent. After a transaction commits, the changes it has made to the datab