Rollback (data management) — In database technologies, a rollback is an operation which returns the database to some previous state. Rollbacks are important for database integrity, because they mean that the database can be restored to a clean copy even after erroneous… … Wikipedia
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Cascade — A cascade is a type of waterfall or a series of waterfalls.Cascade may also refer to: Places North America* Cascade Range, a mountain range on the west coast of North America * Cascade Volcanoes, a grouping of volcanoes on the west coast of North … Wikipedia
Schedule (computer science) — In the fields of databases and transaction processing (transaction management), a schedule (also called history) of a system is an abstract model to describe execution of transactions running in the system. Often it is a list of operations… … Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Skin — Shortcuts: WP:SKIN WP:MONOBOOK Skins, in Wikipedia terminology, are different layouts of Wikipedia. Wikipedia, as a website powered by MediaWiki, is a skinnable website, which means the presentational style of the pages can be changed, provided… … Wikipedia
Strict two-phase locking — In computer science, strict two phase locking (Strict 2PL) is a locking method used in concurrent systems.The two rules of Strict 2PL are:# If a transaction T wants to read/write an object, it must request a shared/exclusive lock on the object. # … Wikipedia
Microsoft Jet Database Engine — This article is about JET Red used in Microsoft Access. For the JET Blue ISAM implementation, see Extensible Storage Engine. The Microsoft Jet Database Engine is a database engine on which several Microsoft products have been built. A database… … Wikipedia
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