EBK DATABASE CONCEPTS
EBK DATABASE CONCEPTS
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780133544886
Author: AUER
Publisher: PEARSON CUSTOM PUB.(CONSIGNMENT)
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Chapter 6, Problem 6.15RQ

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Two-phase locking:

The process in which the locks are acquired during the growing phase and released in a shrinking phase is called two-phase locking.

  • One way of achieving serializability is two-phase locking.
  • Serializability is the process of processing concurrent transaction which can be achieved through one of the number of different means...

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