Practice Concurrency Control: The Problem of Concurrency Control - 9.4 | Module 9: Transaction Management | Introduction to Database Systems
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is the Lost Update problem?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about what happens with two transactions changing the same data.

Question 2

Easy

Define the Dirty Read problem.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider situations where data can change before a commit.

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What is a Lost Update?

  • One transaction reading uncommitted data
  • One transaction overwriting another's updates
  • A transaction failing to commit

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider a scenario with two transactions modifying the same record.

Question 2

True or False: A Dirty Read occurs when a transaction reads committed data.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Remember the difference between committed and uncommitted data.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with challenges.

Question 1

Create a detailed description of a scenario in a flight reservation system where all four concurrency issues (Lost Update, Dirty Read, Unrepeatable Read, Phantom) manifest. Outline what transactions are involved and how they lead to inconsistencies.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider multiple transactions with overlapping read/write operations on shared resources.

Question 2

Calculate impact in a retail application where one transaction updates inventory counts, while another transaction checks the counts before and after updates.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about the sequence of transactions and how one can affect the results seen by another.

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