Concurrency addresses how severel users can update a database at once. You
need to look at things like 2 phase comit protocol and locking.
"Ed prochak" <ed.prochak_at_alltel.com> wrote in message
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> tongli_at_unagi.cis.upenn.edu (Tong Li) wrote in message
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> > Hello there,
> > I have question about transaction concurrency.
> > The concurrency is more important when data be fetched from (slow) disk
or
> > when transactions are long, but I just wonder if it nessecery when the
data
> > is in memory and transactions are very short?
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Tina
>
> So you think that having data in fast RAM with a fast CPU is going to
> save you from transaction problems?
>
> Think about busy systems (i.e., many transactions happening often).
>
> Ed Prochak
Received on Mon Nov 19 2001 - 14:45:26 CST
