数据库系统原理精品教学（吉林大学）ch15.pptVIP

Chapter 15: Transactions Chapter 15: Transactions Transaction Concept Transaction State Concurrent Executions Serializability Recoverability Implementation of Isolation Transaction Definition in SQL Testing for Serializability. Transaction Concept A transaction is a unit of program execution that accesses and possibly updates various data items. E.g. transaction to transfer $50 from account A to account B: 1. read(A) 2. A := A – 50 3. write(A) 4. read(B) 5. B := B + 50 6. write(B) Two main issues to deal with: Failures of various kinds, such as hardware failures and system crashes Concurren