Operational semantics of transactions

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Prinz;Bernhard Thalheim

  • Affiliations:
  • DResearch Digital Media GmbH, Otto-Schmirgal-Str. 3, D-10319 Berlin, Germany;Computer Science Institute, Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus, PostBox 101344, D-03013 Cottbus

  • Venue:
  • ADC '03 Proceedings of the 14th Australasian database conference - Volume 17
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Mathematics is forcing towards a consistent framework of theory development. Computer Science is an engineering discipline and sometimes suffers from ad-hoc definitions. Transactions are a concept that is commonly used in the database area. It is often defined in the form: given a syntactic construct in an abstract form and declare a number of properties an engine should support which is not specified and invisible.This paper aims in providing an operational semantics for transactions. A DBMS implementation is then considered to be a faithful refinement of the operational semantics.