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Exercise 1.9 Answer the following questions: What is a transaction? Why does a DBMS interl...

Exercise 1.9 Answer the following questions:

  1. What is a transaction?
  2. Why does a DBMS interleave the actions of different transactions instead of executing transactions one after the other?
  3. What must a user guarantee with respect to a transaction and database consistency? What should a DBMS guarantee with respect to concurrent execution of several transactions and database consistency?
  4. Explan the strict two-phase locking protocol.
  5. What is the WAL property, and why is it important?

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