Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) - Hardcover

Gray, Jim; Reuter, Andreas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558601902 ISBN 13: 9781558601901

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 1992

Synopsis

The key to client/server computing.

Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields of
databases and operating systems and are used to monitor, control and update
information in modern computer systems. This book will show you how large,
distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably.
Using transactions as a unifying conceptual framework, the authors show how
to build high performance distributed systems and high availability
applications with finite budgets and risk.

The authors provide detailed explanations of why various problems occur as
well as practical, usable techniques for their solution. Throughout the book,
examples and techniques are drawn from the most successful commercial and
research systems. Extensive use of compilable C code fragments demonstrates
the many transaction processing algorithms presented in the book. The book
will be valuable to anyone interested in implementing distributed systems
or client/server architectures.

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Review:

This is the one book you ought to have if you want to expand your knowledge of online transaction processing (OLTP) and learn how to apply it to the real world. Transaction Processing completely covers the problems faced by OLTP systems and discusses fault tolerance and recovery--the ability of a system to withstand failures of various kinds without dropping the ball. Additionally, Gray and Reuter cover system architecture decisions, monitoring, concurrence (including locks and isolation), scheduling (including deadlock resolution), and file systems. The book concludes with a discussion (circa 1993) of the merits of various hardware and software used in OLTP systems. Although there is no companion CD-ROM with Transaction Processing, the authors do illustrate many of the book's concepts with C source code. As this is a college textbook, you can expect some dry prose and academic approaches to certain problems. Nonetheless, the authors' writing is clear and easy to follow.

About the Author:

Jim Gray, Microsoft Research and Andreas Reuter, University of Stuttgart

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 1558601902
• ISBN 13: 9781558601901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1128