Principles of Transaction Processing

Preface Trademarks Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 The Basics 1.2 TP System Architecture 1.3 Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability 1.4 Two-Phase Commit 1.5 Transaction Processing Performance 1.6 Availability 1.7 Styles of Systems 1.8 TP System Configurations 1.9 Summary Chapter 2 Transaction Processing Abstractions 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Transactions 2.3 Processes and Threads 2.4 Remote Procedure Call 2.5 Shared State 2.6 Scalability 2.7 Summary Chapter 3 Transaction Processing Application Architecture 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Application Architecture 3.3 Front-End Program 3.4 Request Controller 3.5 Transaction Servers 3.6 Transactional Middleware 3.7 Database Servers Versus Transactional Middleware 3.8 Summary Chapter 4 Queued Transaction Processing 4.1 Why Use Queues? 4.2 The Queued Transaction Processing Model 4.3 Client Recovery 4.4 Handling Non-Undoable Operations 4.5 The Queue Manager 4.6 Publish-Subscribe 4.7 Other Message-Oriented Middleware 4.8 Queuing Products and Standards 4.9 Summary Chapter 5 Business Process Management 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Business Process Definition 5.3 Business Process Execution 5.4 Transactional Properties 5.5 Making Process State Durable 5.6 Other Models of Business Processes 5.7 Products and Standards 5.8 Summary Chapter 6 Locking 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Implementation 6.3 Deadlocks 6.4 Performance 6.5 Hot Spots 6.6 Query-Update Problems 6.7 Avoiding Phantoms 6.8 Optimistic Concurrency Control 6.9 B-Tree Locking 6.10 Multigranularity Locking 6.11 Locking Nested Transactions 6.12 Summary 6.13 Appendix: Basic Serializability Theory Chapter 7 System Recovery 7.1 Causes of System Failure 7.2 A Mode