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Masking System Crashes in Database Application Programs.

Johann Christoph Freytag, Flaviu Cristian, Bo Kähler: Masking System Crashes in Database Application Programs. VLDB 1987: 407-416
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/FreytagCK87,
  author    = {Johann Christoph Freytag and
               Flaviu Cristian and
               Bo K{\"a}hler},
  editor    = {Peter M. Stocker and
               William Kent and
               Peter Hammersley},
  title     = {Masking System Crashes in Database Application Programs},
  booktitle = {VLDB'87, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 1-4, 1987, Brighton, England},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1987},
  isbn      = {0-934613-46-X},
  pages     = {407-416},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/FreytagCK87.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/87},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

Over the last decade many techniques for recovering a consistent state for a database management system after a system crash have been proposed. However, the problem of handling system crashes in database application programs, and of masking these crashes to users of those programs, has received little attention.

This paper presents a log-based algorithm for recovering the state of database application programs after system crashes. Although the general idea of the algorithm is quite simple, the interaction between the program, the user, and the database management system has to be investigated with care. To describe the details of the algorithm clearly, we introduce a programming language with terminal input/output and database operations. By incrementally changing the semantic definition of the programming language to include operations for logging and recovery purposes, we demonstrate that the requirements for crash recovery can be met without changing the database application programs themselves.

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Peter M. Stocker, William Kent, Peter Hammersley (Eds.): VLDB'87, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 1-4, 1987, Brighton, England. Morgan Kaufmann 1987, ISBN 0-934613-46-X
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