Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Chapter 17: An Introduction to Transaction Processing Concepts and Theory

"The concept of transaction provides a mechanism for describing logical units of database processing.  Transaction processing systems are systems with large databases ad hundreds concurrent users executing database transactions. Examples of such systems include airline reservations, banking, credit card processing, stock markets, supermarket and so on. These systems require high availability and fast response time for hundreds of concurrent users". 


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Source:  Fundamentals of Database Systems by Elmasri and Navathe