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Notes on data base operating systems

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This paper is a compendium of data base management operating systems folklore. It is an early paper and is still in draft form. It is intended as a set of course notes for a class on data base operating systems. After a brief overview of what a data management system is it focuses on particular issues unique to the transaction management component especially locking and recovery.

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Gray, J.N. (1978). Notes on data base operating systems. In: Bayer, R., Graham, R.M., Seegmüller, G. (eds) Operating Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 60. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-08755-9_9

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