October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
17h 11m
English
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Chapter 8 introduced techniques like skip and restart to make batch jobs robust and reliable. This chapter complements the last one by covering another topic critical to batch jobs: transaction management. As batch jobs interact with transactional resources like databases, proper transaction management is crucial to make batch applications robust and reliable. Because an error can occur at any time during batch processing, a job needs to know if it should roll back the current transaction to avoid leaving data in an inconsistent state or if it can commit the transaction to ...
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