CS262a: Reading Assignment #6 Due Wednesday, September 13th

1. Granularity of Locks and Degrees of Consistency in a Shared Database (2-up version)
   J.N. Gray, R.A. Lorie, G.R. Putzolu, I.L. Traiger. Appears In IFIP Working Conference on Modeling of Data Base Management Systems. 1975
2. Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery
   Theo Haerder and Andreas Reuter, Appears in Journal of the ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 15, No 4 (Dec. 1983), pp287-317

You must also:

Submit a summary for each paper.

Optional reading for paper #1:

• A Critique of ANSI SQL Isolation Levels
  Hal Berenson, Phil Bernstein, Jim Gray, Jim Melton, Elizabeth O’Neil, and Patrick O’Neil. Appears in ACM SIGMOD ‘ 95,San Jose, CA USA
• Generalized Isolation Levels
  Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov, Patrick O'Neil. Appears in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), San Diego, CA, March 2000.

Optional reading for paper #2:

• The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations,
  Jim Grey. Appears in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Sept. 1981.
  

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