Transaction Management

This work provides an update for those seeking system solutions beyond the confines of traditional approaches. It offers advice on how to manage complex transactions and share distributed databases on client servers and the Internet. 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.

Author Biography

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.