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Transaction Processing in the late 1990s and Beyond

In: Transaction Management

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  • Dimitris N. Chorafas

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The termtransaction is used in literature, and quite often in actual practice, in a rather vague and imprecise way. It may be an operation which updates information elements (IE) in the database, but may also be a query, a message or a document handling activity. Throughout this book we will speak of information elements rather than of data sets. I have adopted this term because it is more appropriate to the handling of multimedia objects, avoiding misunderstandings which might arise if the reference was limited to data. Therefore, prior to discussing how transactions should be managed, we have to define what a transaction is and is not.

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  • Dimitris N. Chorafas, 1998. "Transaction Processing in the late 1990s and Beyond," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Transaction Management, chapter 1, pages 3-23, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37653-3_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230376533_1
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