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    Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
    Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
    Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques
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    Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques

    By Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter

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    The key to client/server computing.Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields ofdatabases and operating systems and are used to monitor, control and updateinformation in modern computer systems. This book will show you how large,distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably.Using transactions as a unifying conceptual framework, the authors show howto build high-performance distributed systems and high-availabilityapplications with finite budgets and risk.

    The authors provide detailed explanations of why various problems occur aswell as practical, usable techniques for their solution. Throughout the book,examples and techniques are drawn from the most successful commercial andresearch systems. Extensive use of compilable C code fragments demonstratesthe many transaction processing algorithms presented in the book. The bookwill be valuable to anyone interested in implementing distributed systemsor client/server architectures.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateSep 30, 1992
    ISBN9780080519555
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