Transaction Management
Transaction management is crucial for ensuring reliability and correctness in database systems, especially in multi-user environments. It centers on concepts like concurrency control and recovery, which help maintain data integrity amid simultaneous operations. Understanding transaction properties—Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability (ACID)—is essential for managing complex interactions while handling failures and deadlocks efficiently.
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What we have learnt
- Transactions are defined as atomic units of work that either complete entirely or are fully rolled back, ensuring no partial updates.
- ACID properties ensure data integrity: Atomicity guarantees complete transaction execution, Consistency preserves database rules, Isolation provides transaction independence, and Durability secures committed changes against system failures.
- Concurrency control techniques like Two-Phase Locking and Timestamp-Based Protocols prevent data integrity violations stemming from simultaneous transactions, while Deadlock handling strategies ensure the system remains responsive despite inter-transaction dependencies.
Key Concepts
- -- Transaction
- A logical unit of work that accesses and modifies a database; treated as atomic, meaning it must either complete fully or not at all.
- -- ACID Properties
- The four properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) that define the reliability of transactions in a database.
- -- Concurrency Control
- Techniques aimed at managing simultaneous operations to ensure database integrity, preventing issues like dirty reads and lost updates.
- -- Deadlock
- A situation where two or more transactions are unable to proceed because each is waiting for the other to release a lock.
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