06 (a) Supplement RDBMS Issues 2

1. And Franchise Colleges HSQ - DATABASES & SQL 06 (a) Supplement RDBMS Issues 2 • By MANSHA NAWAZ RDBMS 2

2. RDBMS Issues 2: Database Recovery & Concurrency Database Recovery This lecture is concerned with advanced server based RDBMS needs. Recovery is Needed • When: • Hardware errors occur • Software errors occur • External circumstances occur (e.g., flood, fire, etc.) • Redundancy • is key to recovery, but this redundancy is hidden from the user and is different to data redundancy as seen previously RDBMS 2

3. Transaction A transaction is a unit of work, • that is either done completely • or not done at all Transaction • is the unit of recovery and • the unit of concurrency • (see later on concurrency) RDBMS 2

4. Transaction Process Assume an SQL statement is atomic, then we are concerned with situations requiring more than one SQL statements (e.g., crediting a bank account and debiting another) BEGIN TRANSACTION Do lots of things ….. ABORT TRANSACTION (ROLLBACK) END TRANSACTION (COMMIT) RDBMS 2

5. Transaction Process Q: How do we know how to rollback – what were the previous operations since the Begin Transaction statement? A: keep a LOG • A System File • keeps details of transactions begun • operations performed (before and after states) • transactions aborted • transactions committed • and any other information of importance to recovery (see later) RDBMS 2

6. Transaction Process • Log enables an undo, as it keeps details of new and old values of attributes (i.e., update Attribute A from 3 to 5) • Old values are restored on an undo • Failure occurs during undo, then undo – undoing many times = undo once • Failure between operation & writing log – Write Ahead Log protocol RDBMS 2

7. Possible Recovery Situations • Particular types of software and hardware situations where recovery may be needed: • Planned situations by programmer (in software) • Unplanned by programmer (in software) • Systems failures (e.g., CPU) • Media Failures (e.g., disk head crash) RDBMS 2

8. Possible Recovery Situations • Planned by programmer • force an abort of a transaction by writing the code explicitly IF Balance < 0 THEN Message (“Can’t transfer – aborting transaction’); Abort; END; RDBMS 2

9. Possible Recovery Situations • Unplanned by programmer • Temp:= count / 0 • Divide by zero causes a software fault and results in an abort of the current transaction. RDBMS 2

10. Possible Recovery Situations • System failures (e.g., CPU failure) • When a COMMIT is performed, the changes are considered to be permanent by the user • However, internally the changes may not have been transmitted from primary storage (buffers) to secondary storage (disk) at the time of systems failure, and CPU failure affects the buffers (but not the disk). RDBMS 2

11. Possible Recovery Situations Q: How can we find out which transactions are affected? A: LOG? • insufficient on its own • whilst a transaction commit may have been logged on the log, via write ahead protocol, either the actual update may not have taken place • and/or the page associated with the last operation(s) of the transaction may not have been written to disk. RDBMS 2

12. Checkpoints • System controlled points • (snapshot) • flush all data out of the buffers to guarantee changes • issue a checkpoint record to the log • what transactions are active • address of the most recent log record for each transaction • on abort, the most recent checkpoint ensures that we know which transactions are of interest to us RDBMS 2

13. UsingCheckpoints Tc Tf T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 Checkpoint -------------LOG----------> RDBMS 2

14. Using Checkpoints Process for determining Undo and Redo list of transactions at Tf • Redo – completely undone, then done again • using log details of past and present states • Redo several times = redo once • At Checkpoint Tc: T2 & T3 are active, so put on Undo List • Redo list is initially empty • Work through log from checkpoint to Tf • Find BEGIN transaction • put on Undo list • Find END transaction • change from Undo List to Redo List RDBMS 2

15. Using Checkpoints • For our transactions diagram: • Undo {initial} = {T2, T3} • Redo {initial} = {} • Undo {Tf} = {T3, T5} • Redo {Tf} = {T2, T4} RDBMS 2

16. Media Failures: • These affect the database • periodic dumping at appropriate times (e.g., end of the week) • page updating/incremental dumping (e.g., end of day) • cold start - use archived dump information and the log if intact RDBMS 2

17. Summary: Database Recovery • What database recovery is about • Transaction • Log & Write Ahead Log Protocol • Types of failures: • Software failures, planned and unplanned • Systems failures (e.g., CPU) where only recent transactions may be affected • Checkpoints • Media Failures, where database may be affected RDBMS 2

18. Database Concurrency This is about ensuring that all concurrent transactions leave the database in the same state as if the transactions were executed one after the other • Multi-user problem ONLY • Look at the major types of problems and some common solutions • Note: work in terms of reads and writes • 1 SQL statement may involve both reads and writes • e.g., UPDATE RDBMS 2

19. The Lost Update Problem With R = 5, R’ = 6 rather than 7 i.e., lost one of the updates, as it was written over! RDBMS 2

20. Uncommitted Dependency Problem First transaction has a read value of R which no longer exists RDBMS 2

21. Inconsistent Analysis Problem First transaction has an inconsistent picture of R and P RDBMS 2

22. Solutions • Locking (most common): • Lock an object so that other transactions cannot interfere with it • Unlock it when finished • Lock + Unlock = 2 Phase Locking (Protocol) • Most common lock types • Exclusive / write / X Lock • Shared / read / S Lock RDBMS 2

23. Solutions • Transaction can promote its S lock into an X lock, as long as there are no other S locks on it • N --- Transaction goes into a wait state • Locking can occur when a statement is used, or at the beginning of a transaction (greedy!) • Unlocking occurs typically at COMMIT or ROLLBACK RDBMS 2

24. Lost Update Problem • Solved the Lost Update, but introduced Deadlock or Deadly Embrace • Solutions: • Never allow transactions together that could result in deadlock • Choose a victim and abort, with error message RDBMS 2

25. Uncommitted Dependency Problem RDBMS 2

26. Inconsistent Analysis Problem RDBMS 2

27. Granularity of Locking • What to lock …. • Whole Database • Whole Table • Whole Record • Whole Attribute • Trade-off between simplicity of method vs. concurrency allowed RDBMS 2

28. Summary: Database Concurrency • Three common concurrency problems • Standard Method of dealing with them • 2 Phase Locking • Show how they overcome concurrency problems • Deadlock or Deadly Embrace • Granularity of Locking RDBMS 2

29. End of Lecture RDBMS 2