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Managing Multi-User
Databases
AIMS 3710
R. Nakatsu
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Multi-User Issues
• Transaction Management
• Database Recovery
• Database Administration
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Transaction Processing
What is a transaction?
A transaction is a logical unit of work that
must be entirely completed or aborted; no
intermediate states are accepted.
A transaction may consist of a series of
related UPDATE (or writes) to the
database.
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Scenario: A company makes a credit sale of a
product to a customer.
1. Generate an order on the Order table to record
the order.
2. Update the Inventory table by subtracting the
number of units of the product sold from the
quantity-on-hand.
3. Update the Account Receivable table to bill the
customer later.
If the three transactions are not completely
executed, the transaction will yield an inconsistent
database
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Transaction Management
with SQL
Two commands are useful to know:
1. COMMIT: When this statement is issued,
the changes are permanently recorded in
the database.
2. ROLLBACK: When this statement is
reached, the changes are aborted, and the
database is “rolled back” to its previous
consistent state.
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Database Recovery
The process of restoring the database
to a correct state in the event of a
failure.
• Via Reprocessing
• Via Rollback/Rollforward (Undo/Redo)
Recovery Facilities
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Backup Facilities: make periodic backup copies
of the database
Logging Facilities: keep track of all updates
made to the database
Checkpoint Facilities: maintain a point of
synchronization between the database and
the transaction log
Transaction Log
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Transaction records contain:
• Transaction identifier
• Time
• Type of transaction (transaction start,
insert, update, delete, abort, commit)
• Identifier of data item affected
• Before-image of the data item
• After-image of the data item
• Log management information (such as
pointers to previous and next log records
for the transaction)
Checkpoint
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The point of synchronization between the
database and the transaction log file. All
buffers are force-written to secondary
storage.
Checkpoints involve the following operations:
1. All log records in main memory are
written to secondary storage.
2. A checkpoint record is written to the log
file. The record contains the identifers
of all active transactions at the time the
checkpoint is taken.
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Checkpointing Example
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Fault-Tolerant Computer
Systems…
are systems that contain extra hardware,
software, and power supply components
that can back up a system and keep it
running continuously to prevent system
failure.
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Technologies used to ensure
maximum performance
Load balancing distributes large numbers of
access requests across multiple servers.
Mirroring uses a backup server that
duplicates all the processes and
transactions of the primary server.
Clustering links two computers together so
that the second computer can act as a
backup to the primary computer.
RAID
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(Redundant Array of Independent
Disks)
• Technology that provides enhanced
performance and reliability through
redundancy
• Replicates data among multiple disk
drives
Question: Does RAID replace the need
for backups?
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Database Administration (DBA)
The overall responsibility of the DBA is
to facilitate the development and use
of the database.
DBA database administrator
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manages the database structure
controls concurrent processing
develops database security
provides for database recovery
manages the DBMS
DBA Must Monitor DBMS
Performance
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Features of Multi-User DBMS Products
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• Support for SQL and other open standards
• Support for transaction processing
(commits and rollbacks)
• Transaction logging for quick recovery
• Security management
• Programmability (the ability to create
customized applications)
• Support for DBA functions (e.g.,
performance tuning and query optimization)