What do reserving a seat on an airplane, buying a movie ticket over the Internet, and launching a missile all have in common?
Principles of Transaction Processing for the Systems Professional
explains that these and many other computerized tasks require the use of transaction processing (TP). Authors Philip Bernstein and Eric Newcomer demonstrate that this previously specialized area of systems design is becoming more important with the growth of Internet commerce. This theoretically astute and practical-minded book begins with a description of the principles of successful transaction management. (The so-called "ACID" test requires that transactions be atomistic, consistent, isolated, and durable.)Read more