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Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition
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Distributed Systems, 2nd Edition

by Sukumar Ghosh
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
554 pages
17h 49m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 14

Distributed Transactions

14.1 Introduction

Amy wakes up in the morning and decides to transfer a sum of $200 from her savings account in Colorado to her checking account in Iowa City where the balance is so low that she cannot write a check to pay her apartment rent. She logs into her home computer and executes the transfer that is translated into a sequence of the following two operations:

  • Withdraw $200 from Colorado State bank account 4311182.
  • Deposit the said amount into Iowa State bank account 6761125.

The next day, she writes a check to pay her rent. Unfortunately, her check bounced. Furthermore, it was found that $200 was debited from her Colorado account, but due to a server failure in Iowa City, no money was deposited to ...

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