Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques

Western Institute of Computer Science (WICS) Summer School at Stanford 5-9 Aug. 1996

The book: Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques..

The bug list for TP Book

The movie (videotapes of the 1992 class) from Heather Gray (heather.v.gray@verizon.net)

Jim Gray, Microsoft

Andreas Reuter, U. Stuttgart

Pat Helland, Microsoft

Pete Homan, BEA

Charles Levine, Microsoft

Robert Orfali, IBM

 

WICS TP CLASS 1996

(links are to PowerPoint7 versions of the slides. Get the free PPT viewer from www.microsoft.com)

 

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thurs

Fri


9:00-10:30

Reuter 1 & 2

Introduction & Terminology

Reuter 5

TP Monitors

Gray 9-10

Logging

Reuter 13

File and Buffer Management

Reuter 15

Access Paths

11:00-12:30

Gray 3

Fault Tolerance

Reuter 6

ORBs

Gray 10

Resource Mgr

Pat Helland

Microsoft COM & DTC

Charles Levine

Benchmarks

12:30-1:30

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

lunch

1:30-3:00

Gray 3

FT techniques

Gray 7

Lock theory

Reuter 11

Transaction Mgr

Robert Orfali

CORBA & OpenDoc

Pete Homan

BEA & Tuxedo

3:30-5:00

Reuter 4

Transaction Models

Gray 8

Lock Techniques

Gray 12

Advanced TM Techniques

Gray 14

Structured files

Gray 16

System Surveys

evening

Reception

Reuter

Workflow

Gray

Cyberbricks

party (@ Oasis)

 

Collateral material:

Spreadsheet showing mid 1996 TPC-C performance and Price-performance