May 2001
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
30h 13m
English
Transactional operations are usually judged by whether they meet the ACID test, which is a simple set of four criteria that describes the desired properties of a transaction. These properties are atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability.
Atomicity means that all operations in the transaction succeed or they all fail. As you have already seen, if only part of a transaction can succeed, it becomes extremely difficult to maintain data integrity.
No matter what happens, during the transaction, the data is still in a consistent state. Some aspects of consistency are dependent on the program itself and not specifically the transac tion coordinator or the database. For example, if a transaction could allow ...
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