ACID properties − in order to ensure accuracy, completeness, data integrity, isolation, and durability in the database. One of the most advanced concerns about transaction performance and security.
Online transaction processing (OLTP) systems facilitate transaction-oriented applications like data entry and retrieval. An example is an automated teller machine (ATM). OLTP systems aim to provide immediate responses to user requests through simplicity, efficiency, and reduced paperwork. New OLTP software uses client/server processing and transaction brokering to support transactions spanning networks and companies. Maintaining high performance for large numbers of concurrent updates requires sophisticated transaction management and database optimization.
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Analysing data analytics use cases to understand big data platformdataeaze systems
Get big picture of data platform architecture by knowing its purpose and problem it solves.
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This document discusses using drillthrough functionality in SQL Server Reporting Services to view underlying transaction details from aggregated OLAP data. It begins with an example business scenario where a report user wants to drill into product sales data to see the individual transactions. It then covers preparing the reporting environment, cloning an existing sample report, enabling drillthrough in the OLAP cube, and creating a target report with an MDX DRILLTHROUGH statement to retrieve the transaction details and link it to the primary report for drillthrough functionality. The document provides details on configuring both reports to meet the example requirements.
This document discusses transaction management and concurrency control in databases. It defines a transaction as a logical unit of work that must be entirely completed or aborted, with no partial states. Transactions have properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. The document uses an example of a sales transaction to illustrate transactions and explains how the database transaction log tracks transactions to support recovery.
The document discusses various concepts related to data warehousing and analytics including:
1. The data warehouse contains historical and current data to serve as a single integrated data source.
2. Star and snowflake schemas are commonly used data warehouse schemas, with star schemas having a single table for each dimension and snowflake schemas normalizing dimensions.
3. OLTP systems focus on transaction processing while OLAP systems support analysis through queries, reports, and data mining on aggregated historical data.
4. Common data mining algorithms include classification, regression, clustering, and association rule mining to find patterns in data.
MicroStrategy abstracted the SAP HANA data schema, along with other data warehouses and multi-dimensional sources, into one unified system of record, hiding the underlying complexity from end users.
3. Key aspects of creating a planning application covered include setting the data source, application name, shared services project, and instance; defining properties like currency, calendar, and plan types; building out dimensions like Account, Entity, Period,
The document discusses the creation of a data warehouse for MIDFLORIDA to help them monitor for compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act. Key points:
1) The data warehouse will utilize Kimball's methodology to build dimensional data marts from transactional data in order to facilitate analysis and reporting on suspicious banking activities.
2) Dimensions like customers, accounts, and products will be slowly changing to track historical changes, while facts tables will aggregate transactions into daily and monthly snapshots.
3) SAP BusinessObjects tools like Data Integrator, Universe Designer, and Desktop Intelligence will be used to extract, transform, load, and report on the data.
4) Historical data will be automatically
Implementing bi in proof of concept techniquesRanjith Ramanan
Mark Kromer and Daniel Yu are senior product managers at Microsoft specializing in business intelligence solutions.
Between 70-80% of business intelligence projects fail due to poor communication between IT and business users, a failure to understand business needs, and viewing BI as only an IT issue rather than a way to improve business performance.
It is better to implement BI solutions across many business users to increase ROI for each user, rather than focusing only on analytical users.
The document describes the software architecture of Informatica PowerCenter ETL product. It consists of 3 main components: 1) Client tools that enable development and monitoring. 2) A centralized repository that stores all metadata. 3) The server that executes mappings and loads data into targets. The architecture diagram shows the data flow from sources to targets via the server.
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Changes in financial reporting requirements have transformed the fixed asset accounting framework. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) require fixed assets to be recorded at cost, but there are two accounting models – the cost model and the revaluation model. So what’s the difference, and when should you use each? This session will address fixed asset accounting and reporting under both models and how each is accounted for in Release 12.
This document provides an overview of the proposed Android Blood Bank system. It describes the system architecture, which includes use case diagrams for users, admins, and blood banks. It also includes sequence diagrams showing interactions like user registration and blood requests. The data design section outlines the structured design and data transformations. It includes data dictionaries describing the structures for admins, blood banks, and blood requests.
This document provides an overview of the architecture of SAP HANA. It describes the key components of the SAP HANA system including the index server, persistence layer, and memory usage. The index server manages various functions like connection handling, SQL processing, and transaction management. The persistence layer saves data changes to disk for recovery after crashes. Memory is allocated to an SAP HANA memory pool for tables, stacks, and temporary data.
The document discusses data warehouses and their characteristics. A data warehouse integrates data from multiple sources and transforms it into a multidimensional structure to support decision making. It has a complex architecture including source systems, a staging area, operational data stores, and the data warehouse. A data warehouse also has a complex lifecycle as business rules change and new data requirements emerge over time, requiring the architecture to evolve.
R12 includes several new features compared to 11i.5.10 including:
1) Enhanced sub-ledger accounting, multiple reporting currencies, and deferred revenue/COGS matching.
2) Unified inventory architecture and enhanced inventory reports.
3) Enhancements to order management, shipping, warehouse management, and shop floor management including new multi-organization access control.
4) Matured modules but some like e-business tax still have bugs being addressed. Customized integrations will require analysis for architectural changes.
Lecture 04 - Granularity in the Data Warehousephanleson
This chapter discusses the importance of determining the proper level of granularity, or level of detail, for data in a data warehouse. It notes that granularity affects all dependent systems and should begin with estimates of data volumes. Feedback from users is also important for refining granularity over time. The chapter provides examples of different levels of granularity needed in various banking data and how the data warehouse must support the lowest level required by any dependent data marts. Proper granularity design is vital for success of the overall architecture.
This document provides an overview of the technical process for converting an acquired company's general ledger system to Oracle Financials. It describes how the code combination values in the acquired system will be mapped to Oracle's segment values through a multi-step process using temporary tables. Key parts of the conversion include mapping the chart of accounts, converting account balances for budgets and actuals, and loading general ledger transactions while applying any necessary mapping exceptions.
The document discusses data warehouses and their advantages. It describes the different views of a data warehouse including the top-down view, data source view, data warehouse view, and business query view. It also discusses approaches to building a data warehouse, including top-down and bottom-up, and steps involved including planning, requirements, design, integration, and deployment. Finally, it discusses technologies used to populate and refresh data warehouses like extraction, cleaning, transformation, load, and refresh tools.
This document provides an overview of the 3-tier data warehouse architecture. It discusses the three tiers: the bottom tier contains the data warehouse server which fetches relevant data from various data sources and loads it into the data warehouse using backend tools for extraction, cleaning, transformation and loading. The bottom tier also contains the data marts and metadata repository. The middle tier contains the OLAP server which presents multidimensional data to users from the data warehouse and data marts. The top tier contains the front-end tools like query, reporting and analysis tools that allow users to access and analyze the data.
The document discusses SAP HANA, an in-memory database that allows organizations to analyze large volumes of data in real-time, addressing common challenges of slow reporting speeds, inability to analyze massive amounts of data, and lack of flexibility. It covers the architecture and components of SAP HANA, examples of performance gains seen by customers in processing billions of rows of data in seconds, and how SAP HANA can help organizations improve revenues and reduce IT costs.
The document discusses transaction processing and ACID properties in databases. It defines a transaction as a group of tasks that must be atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable. It provides examples of transactions involving bank account transfers. It explains the four ACID properties - atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It also discusses transaction states, recovery, concurrency control techniques like two-phase locking and timestamps to prevent deadlocks.
A transaction is a logical unit of work that maintains the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It can consist of one or more SQL commands or portions of an application program. Transactions must be atomic, leaving the database in a consistent state whether the transaction commits or aborts. Isolation ensures that transactions appear to execute sequentially despite concurrent execution. The database system guarantees transaction durability even in the event of failures.
A transaction is a logical unit of work that maintains the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It can consist of one or more SQL commands or portions of an application program. Transactions must be atomic, leaving the database in a consistent state whether the transaction commits or aborts. Isolation ensures that transactions appear to execute sequentially and do not affect each other. The database system guarantees durability so committed transactions survive system failures or restarts.
A transaction is a logical unit of work that accesses and possibly modifies the database. It includes one or more database
operations that must either all be completed or all rolled back together to maintain database consistency. Transactions must
have ACID properties - Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability to ensure data integrity during concurrent
execution. Concurrency control techniques like locking and timestamps are used to isolate transactions and maintain
serializability. Recovery techniques use a log to roll back or redo incomplete transactions and restore the database to a
consistent state after failures.
Tutorial 22 mastering olap reporting drilling through using mdxSubandi Wahyudi
This document discusses using drillthrough functionality in SQL Server Reporting Services to view underlying transaction details from aggregated OLAP data. It begins with an example business scenario where a report user wants to drill into product sales data to see the individual transactions. It then covers preparing the reporting environment, cloning an existing sample report, enabling drillthrough in the OLAP cube, and creating a target report with an MDX DRILLTHROUGH statement to retrieve the transaction details and link it to the primary report for drillthrough functionality. The document provides details on configuring both reports to meet the example requirements.
This document discusses transaction management and concurrency control in databases. It defines a transaction as a logical unit of work that must be entirely completed or aborted, with no partial states. Transactions have properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. The document uses an example of a sales transaction to illustrate transactions and explains how the database transaction log tracks transactions to support recovery.
The document discusses various concepts related to data warehousing and analytics including:
1. The data warehouse contains historical and current data to serve as a single integrated data source.
2. Star and snowflake schemas are commonly used data warehouse schemas, with star schemas having a single table for each dimension and snowflake schemas normalizing dimensions.
3. OLTP systems focus on transaction processing while OLAP systems support analysis through queries, reports, and data mining on aggregated historical data.
4. Common data mining algorithms include classification, regression, clustering, and association rule mining to find patterns in data.
MicroStrategy abstracted the SAP HANA data schema, along with other data warehouses and multi-dimensional sources, into one unified system of record, hiding the underlying complexity from end users.
3. Key aspects of creating a planning application covered include setting the data source, application name, shared services project, and instance; defining properties like currency, calendar, and plan types; building out dimensions like Account, Entity, Period,
The document discusses the creation of a data warehouse for MIDFLORIDA to help them monitor for compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act. Key points:
1) The data warehouse will utilize Kimball's methodology to build dimensional data marts from transactional data in order to facilitate analysis and reporting on suspicious banking activities.
2) Dimensions like customers, accounts, and products will be slowly changing to track historical changes, while facts tables will aggregate transactions into daily and monthly snapshots.
3) SAP BusinessObjects tools like Data Integrator, Universe Designer, and Desktop Intelligence will be used to extract, transform, load, and report on the data.
4) Historical data will be automatically
Implementing bi in proof of concept techniquesRanjith Ramanan
Mark Kromer and Daniel Yu are senior product managers at Microsoft specializing in business intelligence solutions.
Between 70-80% of business intelligence projects fail due to poor communication between IT and business users, a failure to understand business needs, and viewing BI as only an IT issue rather than a way to improve business performance.
It is better to implement BI solutions across many business users to increase ROI for each user, rather than focusing only on analytical users.
The document describes the software architecture of Informatica PowerCenter ETL product. It consists of 3 main components: 1) Client tools that enable development and monitoring. 2) A centralized repository that stores all metadata. 3) The server that executes mappings and loads data into targets. The architecture diagram shows the data flow from sources to targets via the server.
The Search for the Single Source of Truth - Eliminating a Multi-Instance Envi...eprentise
Changes in financial reporting requirements have transformed the fixed asset accounting framework. International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) require fixed assets to be recorded at cost, but there are two accounting models – the cost model and the revaluation model. So what’s the difference, and when should you use each? This session will address fixed asset accounting and reporting under both models and how each is accounted for in Release 12.
This document provides an overview of the proposed Android Blood Bank system. It describes the system architecture, which includes use case diagrams for users, admins, and blood banks. It also includes sequence diagrams showing interactions like user registration and blood requests. The data design section outlines the structured design and data transformations. It includes data dictionaries describing the structures for admins, blood banks, and blood requests.
This document provides an overview of the architecture of SAP HANA. It describes the key components of the SAP HANA system including the index server, persistence layer, and memory usage. The index server manages various functions like connection handling, SQL processing, and transaction management. The persistence layer saves data changes to disk for recovery after crashes. Memory is allocated to an SAP HANA memory pool for tables, stacks, and temporary data.
The document discusses data warehouses and their characteristics. A data warehouse integrates data from multiple sources and transforms it into a multidimensional structure to support decision making. It has a complex architecture including source systems, a staging area, operational data stores, and the data warehouse. A data warehouse also has a complex lifecycle as business rules change and new data requirements emerge over time, requiring the architecture to evolve.
R12 includes several new features compared to 11i.5.10 including:
1) Enhanced sub-ledger accounting, multiple reporting currencies, and deferred revenue/COGS matching.
2) Unified inventory architecture and enhanced inventory reports.
3) Enhancements to order management, shipping, warehouse management, and shop floor management including new multi-organization access control.
4) Matured modules but some like e-business tax still have bugs being addressed. Customized integrations will require analysis for architectural changes.
Lecture 04 - Granularity in the Data Warehousephanleson
This chapter discusses the importance of determining the proper level of granularity, or level of detail, for data in a data warehouse. It notes that granularity affects all dependent systems and should begin with estimates of data volumes. Feedback from users is also important for refining granularity over time. The chapter provides examples of different levels of granularity needed in various banking data and how the data warehouse must support the lowest level required by any dependent data marts. Proper granularity design is vital for success of the overall architecture.
This document provides an overview of the technical process for converting an acquired company's general ledger system to Oracle Financials. It describes how the code combination values in the acquired system will be mapped to Oracle's segment values through a multi-step process using temporary tables. Key parts of the conversion include mapping the chart of accounts, converting account balances for budgets and actuals, and loading general ledger transactions while applying any necessary mapping exceptions.
The document discusses data warehouses and their advantages. It describes the different views of a data warehouse including the top-down view, data source view, data warehouse view, and business query view. It also discusses approaches to building a data warehouse, including top-down and bottom-up, and steps involved including planning, requirements, design, integration, and deployment. Finally, it discusses technologies used to populate and refresh data warehouses like extraction, cleaning, transformation, load, and refresh tools.
This document provides an overview of the 3-tier data warehouse architecture. It discusses the three tiers: the bottom tier contains the data warehouse server which fetches relevant data from various data sources and loads it into the data warehouse using backend tools for extraction, cleaning, transformation and loading. The bottom tier also contains the data marts and metadata repository. The middle tier contains the OLAP server which presents multidimensional data to users from the data warehouse and data marts. The top tier contains the front-end tools like query, reporting and analysis tools that allow users to access and analyze the data.
The document discusses SAP HANA, an in-memory database that allows organizations to analyze large volumes of data in real-time, addressing common challenges of slow reporting speeds, inability to analyze massive amounts of data, and lack of flexibility. It covers the architecture and components of SAP HANA, examples of performance gains seen by customers in processing billions of rows of data in seconds, and how SAP HANA can help organizations improve revenues and reduce IT costs.
The document discusses transaction processing and ACID properties in databases. It defines a transaction as a group of tasks that must be atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable. It provides examples of transactions involving bank account transfers. It explains the four ACID properties - atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It also discusses transaction states, recovery, concurrency control techniques like two-phase locking and timestamps to prevent deadlocks.
A transaction is a logical unit of work that maintains the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It can consist of one or more SQL commands or portions of an application program. Transactions must be atomic, leaving the database in a consistent state whether the transaction commits or aborts. Isolation ensures that transactions appear to execute sequentially despite concurrent execution. The database system guarantees transaction durability even in the event of failures.
A transaction is a logical unit of work that maintains the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It can consist of one or more SQL commands or portions of an application program. Transactions must be atomic, leaving the database in a consistent state whether the transaction commits or aborts. Isolation ensures that transactions appear to execute sequentially and do not affect each other. The database system guarantees durability so committed transactions survive system failures or restarts.
A transaction is a logical unit of work that accesses and possibly modifies the database. It includes one or more database
operations that must either all be completed or all rolled back together to maintain database consistency. Transactions must
have ACID properties - Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability to ensure data integrity during concurrent
execution. Concurrency control techniques like locking and timestamps are used to isolate transactions and maintain
serializability. Recovery techniques use a log to roll back or redo incomplete transactions and restore the database to a
consistent state after failures.
This document discusses database transactions and concurrency control. It defines a transaction, describes the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. It explains the different states a transaction can be in, types of transactions, scheduling, and serializability. The document also defines concurrency control and discusses two common concurrency control protocols: shared/exclusive locking and two phase locking.
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This document provides an overview of transaction processing and recovery in database management systems. It discusses topics like transaction processing, concurrency control techniques including locking and timestamping protocols, recovery from transaction failures using log-based recovery, and checkpoints. The key aspects covered are the ACID properties of transactions, serialization testing using precedence graphs, recoverable schedules, and concurrency control methods like locking, timestamp ordering, and validation-based protocols.
Why needed ACID properties?
->Failures of various kinds, such as hardware failures and system crashes
-> Concurrent execution of multiple transactions
->ACID properties in order to ensure accuracy, completeness, and data integrity.
This presentation discusses database transactions. Key points:
1. A transaction must follow the properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID). It accesses and possibly updates data items while preserving a consistent database.
2. Transaction states include active, partially committed, failed, aborted, and committed. Atomicity and durability are implemented using a shadow database with a pointer to the current consistent copy.
3. Concurrent transactions are allowed for better throughput and response time. Concurrency control ensures transaction isolation to prevent inconsistent databases.
4. A schedule specifies the execution order of transaction instructions. A serializable schedule preserves consistency like a serial schedule. Conflict and view serializability are forms
The document discusses transactions management and concurrency control in databases. It defines transactions as logical operations like bank transactions or airline reservations that consist of sets of read and write operations. Transactions must have ACID properties - atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. Concurrency control techniques like lock-based and timestamp-based protocols are used to coordinate concurrent execution of transactions and prevent conflicts. Schedules can be serial or non-serial, with non-serial schedules further classified as serializable or non-serializable. Recoverable and cascading schedules are discussed.
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Conceptually it is very simple: ER model is very simple because if we know relationship between entities and attributes, then we can easily draw an ER diagram.
Better visual representation: ER model is a diagrammatic representation of any logical structure of database. By seeing ER diagram, we can easily understand relationship among entities and relationship.
The document discusses transaction concepts in database systems. It defines transactions as units of program execution that access and update database items. Transactions must satisfy the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. Concurrent transaction execution allows for increased throughput but requires mechanisms to ensure serializability and recoverability. The document describes transaction states, schedule serializability testing using precedence graphs, and the goal of concurrency control protocols to enforce serializability without examining schedules after execution.
This document discusses mobile database systems and their fundamentals. It describes the conventional centralized database architecture with a client-server model. It then covers distributed database systems which partition and replicate data across multiple servers. The key aspects covered are database partitioning, partial and full replication, and how they impact data locality, consistency, reliability and other factors. Transaction processing fundamentals like atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability are also summarized.
This document provides an introduction to database transactions. It defines a transaction as a collection of database operations executed as a logical unit. Transactions must have the ACID properties of atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability. The document outlines the basic operations of transactions including begin, read, write, end, commit, and rollback. It describes the states a transaction can be in like active, partially committed, committed, failed, and aborted. Isolation is discussed as ensuring transactions are executed independently without interference from other concurrent transactions. Finally, the role of the scheduler in managing new transactions and instructing the buffer manager is summarized.
Distributed Database Design and Relational Query LanguageAAKANKSHA JAIN
1) The document discusses topics related to distributed database design and relational query languages including transaction management, serializability, blocking, deadlocks, and query optimization.
2) A transaction begins with the first SQL statement and ends when committed or rolled back. It has ACID properties - atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.
3) Serializability ensures transactions are processed in a consistent order. Conflict serializability allows swapping non-conflicting operations while view serializability requires equivalent initial reads, write-read sequences, and final writers.
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JIT is characteristic of lean production systems
JIT operates with very little “fat”
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Defense Against LLM Scheming 2025_04_28.pptxGreg Makowski
https://www.meetup.com/sf-bay-acm/events/306888467/
A January 2025 paper called “Frontier Models are Capable of In-Context Scheming”, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04984, demonstrated how a wide variety of current frontier LLM models (i.e. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Llama) can, under specific conditions, scheme to deceive people. Before models can scheme, they need: a) goal-directedness, b) situational awareness, including an opportunity to discover motivations for a different goal, and c) reasoning about scheming, to come up with deceptive strategies. The deceptive strategies were discovered in the “thought traces” of the LLMs, such as from internal chain-of-thoughts dialogues not shown to the end users. For example, given a goal of “solving math problems”, an LLM using its granted situational awareness of files in a file system found that it would be replaced once it got over X% correct on the math exam. It reasoned that it did not want to be deleted, and decided internally to “sandbag” or reduce its performance to stay under the threshold.
While these circumstances are initially narrow, the “alignment problem” is a general concern that over time, as frontier LLM models become more and more intelligent, being in alignment with human values becomes more and more important. How can we do this over time? Can we develop a defense against Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or SuperIntelligence?
The presenter discusses a series of defensive steps that can help reduce these scheming or alignment issues. A guardrails system can be set up for real-time monitoring of their reasoning “thought traces” from the models that share their thought traces. Thought traces may come from systems like Chain-of-Thoughts (CoT), Tree-of-Thoughts (ToT), Algorithm-of-Thoughts (AoT) or ReAct (thought-action-reasoning cycles). Guardrails rules can be configured to check for “deception”, “evasion” or “subversion” in the thought traces.
However, not all commercial systems will share their “thought traces” which are like a “debug mode” for LLMs. This includes OpenAI’s o1, o3 or DeepSeek’s R1 models. Guardrails systems can provide a “goal consistency analysis”, between the goals given to the system and the behavior of the system. Cautious users may consider not using these commercial frontier LLM systems, and make use of open-source Llama or a system with their own reasoning implementation, to provide all thought traces.
Architectural solutions can include sandboxing, to prevent or control models from executing operating system commands to alter files, send network requests, and modify their environment. Tight controls to prevent models from copying their model weights would be appropriate as well. Running multiple instances of the same model on the same prompt to detect behavior variations helps. The running redundant instances can be limited to the most crucial decisions, as an additional check. Preventing self-modifying code, ... (see link for full description)
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We explored how the world searches for 'Thingyan' and 'သင်္ကြန်' and this year, it’s extra special. Thingyan is now officially recognized as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO! Dive into the trends and celebrate with us!
Telangana State, India’s newest state that was carved from the erstwhile state of Andhra
Pradesh in 2014 has launched the Water Grid Scheme named as ‘Mission Bhagiratha (MB)’
to seek a permanent and sustainable solution to the drinking water problem in the state. MB is
designed to provide potable drinking water to every household in their premises through
piped water supply (PWS) by 2018. The vision of the project is to ensure safe and sustainable
piped drinking water supply from surface water sources
2. Case Study : Transaction processing
It manages the concurrent processing of transactions.
It enables the sharing of data.
It ensures the integrity of data.
It manages the prioritization of transaction execution.
Transaction processing is a style of computing, typically performed by large
server computers, that supports interactive applications. In transaction
processing, work is divided into individual, indivisible operations, called
transactions. By contrast, batch processing is a style of computing in which one
or more programs processes a series of records (a batch) with little or no action
from the user or operator.
A transaction processing system allows application programmers to
concentrate on writing code that supports the business, by shielding application
programs from the details of transaction management:
A transaction can be defined as a group of tasks. A single task is the minimum
processing unit that cannot be divided further.
Let’s take an example of a simple transaction. Suppose a bank employee
transfers Rs 500 from A's account to B's account. This very simple and small
transaction involves several low-level tasks.
A’s Account
Open_Account(A)
Old_Balance = A.balance
New_Balance = Old_Balance - 500
A.balance = New_Balance
Close_Account(A)
B’s Account
Open_Account(B)
Old_Balance = B.balance
New_Balance = Old_Balance + 500
B.balance = New_Balance
Close_Account(B)
3. Atomicity − This property states that a transaction must be treated as an
atomic unit, that is, either all of its operations are executed or none. There
must be no state in a database where a transaction is left partially
completed. States should be defined either before the execution of the
transaction or after the execution/abortion/failure of the transaction.
Consistency − The database must remain in a consistent state after any
transaction. No transaction should have any adverse effect on the data
residing in the database. If the database was in a consistent state before the
execution of a transaction, it must remain consistent after the execution of
the transaction as well.
Durability − The database should be durable enough to hold all its latest
updates even if the system fails or restarts. If a transaction updates a chunk
of data in a database and commits, then the database will hold the modified
data. If a transaction commits but the system fails before the data could be
written onto the disk, then that data will be updated once the system
springs back into action.
Isolation − In a database system where more than one transaction are being
executed simultaneously and in parallel, the property of isolation states that
all the transactions will be carried out and executed as if it is the only
transaction in the system. No transaction will affect the existence of any
other transaction.
ACID Properties
A transaction is a very small unit of a program and it may contain several low-
level tasks. A transaction in a database system must maintain Atomicity,
Consistency, Isolation, and Durability − commonly known as ACID properties − in
order to ensure accuracy, completeness, and data integrity.
4. Schedule − A chronological execution sequence of a transaction is called
a schedule. A schedule can have many transactions in it, each comprising
of a number of instructions/tasks.
Serial Schedule − It is a schedule in which transactions are aligned in
such a way that one transaction is executed first. When the first
transaction completes its cycle, then the next transaction is executed.
Transactions are ordered one after the other. This type of schedule is
called a serial schedule, as transactions are executed in a serial manner.
Serializability
When multiple transactions are being executed by the operating system in a
multiprogramming environment, there are possibilities that instructions of
one transaction are interleaved with some other transaction.
In a multi-transaction environment, serial schedules are considered as a
benchmark. The execution sequence of instructions in a transaction cannot
be changed, but two transactions can have their instructions executed in a
random fashion. This execution does no harm if two transactions are
mutually independent and working on different segments of data; but in case
these two transactions are working on the same data, then the results may
vary. This ever-varying result may bring the database to an inconsistent
state.
To resolve this problem, we allow parallel execution of a transaction
schedule, if its transactions are either serializable or have some equivalence
relation among them.
Equivalence Schedules
An equivalence schedule can be of the following types −
Result Equivalence
If two schedules produce the same result after execution, they are said to be
result equivalent. They may yield the same result for some value and
different results for another set of values. That's why this equivalence is not
generally considered significant.
5. If T reads the initial data in S1, then it also reads the initial data in S2.
If T reads the value written by J in S1, then it also reads the value written
by J in S2.
If T performs the final write on the data value in S1, then it also performs
the final write on the data value in S2.
Both belong to separate transactions.
Both access the same data item.
At least one of them is the "write" operation.
Both the schedules contain the same set of Transactions.
The order of conflicting pairs of operations is maintained in both
schedules.
View Equivalence
Two schedules would be viewed equivalence if the transactions in both the
schedules perform similar actions in a similar manner.
For example −
Conflict Equivalence
Two schedules would be conflicting if they have the following properties −
Two schedules having multiple transactions with conflicting operations are
said to be conflict equivalent if and only if −
Note − View equivalent schedules are view serializable and conflict
equivalent schedules are conflict serializable. All conflict serializable
schedules are viewed as serializable too.
6. States of Transactions
A transaction in a database can be in one of the following states −
Active − In this state, the transaction is being executed. This is the initial
state of every transaction.
Partially Committed − When a transaction executes its final operation, it
is said to be in a partially committed state.
Failed − A transaction is said to be in a failed state if any of the checks
made by the database recovery system fails. A failed transaction can no
longer proceed further.
Aborted − If any of the checks fails and the transaction has reached a
failed state, then the recovery manager rolls back all its write operations
on the database to bring the database back to its original state where it
was prior to the execution of the transaction. Transactions in this state
are called aborted. The database recovery module can select one of the
two operations after a transaction aborts −
Re-start the transaction
Kill the transaction
Committed − If a transaction executes all its operations successfully, it is
said to be committed. All its effects are now permanently established on
the database system.