Principles of Transaction Processing is a comprehensive guide to developing applications, designing systems, and evaluating engineering products. The book provi

The key to client/server computing. Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields of databases and operating systems and are used to moni

This is a great book! This is the book I wish I had written. --Jim Gray, Microsoft Research, recipient of 1998 A.M. Turing Award for seminal contributions to da

When it comes to choosing, using, and maintaining a database, understanding its internals is essential. But with so many distributed databases and tools availab

Transactions are a concept related to the logical database as seen from the perspective of database application programmers: a transaction is a sequence of data