Practice Database Recovery (10) - Database Recovery - Introduction to Database Systems
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Question 1 Easy

What is atomicity in the context of database transactions?

💡 Hint: Think about what happens when a transaction fails.

Question 2 Easy

Name two types of transaction failures.

💡 Hint: Consider errors that would only affect a single transaction.

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Question 1

What is the principle of atomicity?

Only some changes are saved
All or nothing principle
Changes are saved after a point

💡 Hint: Consider what should happen if any part of a transaction fails.

Question 2

True or False: Log-based recovery does not require any transaction logs.

True
False

💡 Hint: Think about what the log is used for during recovery.

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Challenge 1 Hard

Imagine a database suffers a system crash, and 4 transactions were active. One had committed successfully, and two were still uncommitted. Explain the recovery process the database would follow.

💡 Hint: Reflect on the main principles of atomicity and durability.

Challenge 2 Hard

Consider a database using shadow paging. Describe how it handles a critical system failure and how it achieves durability.

💡 Hint: Think about the two-page table structure in shadow paging.

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