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This book provides an essential update for experienced data processing professionals, transaction managers and database specialists who are seeking system solutions beyond the confines of traditional approaches. It provides practical advice on how to manage complex transactions and share distributed databases on client servers and the Internet. Based on extensive research in over 100 companies in the USA, Europe, Japan and the UK, topics covered include : * the challenge of global transaction requirements within an expanding business perspective *how to handle long transactions and their constituent elements *possible benefits from object-oriented solutions * the contribution of knowledge engineering in transaction management * the Internet, the World Wide Web and transaction handling * systems software and transaction-processing monitors * OSF/1 and the Encina transaction monitor * active data transfers and remote procedure calls * serialization in a transaction environment * transaction locks, two-phase commit and deadlocks * improving transaction-oriented database management * the successful development of an increasingly complex transaction environment.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Transaction Environment at the End of the Twentieth Century
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Systems Software for Efficient Transaction Handling
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Database Challenges in Transaction Environments
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About the author
Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transaction Management
Book Subtitle: Managing Complex Transactions and Sharing Distributed Databases
Authors: Dimitris N. Chorafas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376533
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Dimitris N. Chorafas 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21018-2Published: 14 February 1998
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40416-2Published: 14 February 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37653-3Published: 12 January 1998
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 305
Topics: Management, International Business, Popular Computer Science, Theory of Computation, Data Structures and Information Theory