Practice Database Recovery - 10 | Module 10: Database Recovery | Introduction to Database Systems
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

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What is atomicity in the context of database transactions?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about what happens when a transaction fails.

Question 2

Easy

Name two types of transaction failures.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider errors that would only affect a single transaction.

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Interactive Quizzes

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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

πŸ’‘ 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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about what the log is used for during recovery.

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

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.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Reflect on the main principles of atomicity and durability.

Question 2

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

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the two-page table structure in shadow paging.

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