Can We Improve Transaction-Oriented Database Management?

Dimitris N. Chorafas

Chapter 13 in Transaction Management, 1998, pp 255-274 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When we talk of long transactions and the challenges which they pose in terms of their handling, we often tend to forget that databases are frequently badly mismanaged. Not only are they heterogeneous and therefore incompatible even if networked, but also their level of organization, content overlaps, degrees of inconsistency, and lack of pruning are taken as facts of life rather than the danger signals they are. To appreciate how counterproductive this policy has been it is appropriate to recall that since the mid-1970s, companies have considered their database as being a corporate resource, but they rarely provide appropriate and consistent management.

Keywords: Corporate resource; data administrator; data architect; seamless pass-through; real time transaction; esoteric aspect; knowledgebank; super-computing; rule-based system; fuzzy logic; cooperative processing; conceptual infrastructure; competitiveness; federalism in databases; global schema; passthrough; delegated task; reverse delegation; Board of Management; system organization; resource description; customized system parameter; cross-database access; site autonomy; any-to-any relationship; interactive data dictionary; replication; database availability; client-ordering; service-ordering; mirrored disk; clustering; non-clustered indices; system scheduler; chained declustering; interleaved declustering; data modelling; soft data; temporal database; semantic database; time-dependency; active databases; object management; parallelism; recursive query; graphical interface; statistical control of databases; recovery procedure; priority scheduling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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