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  • The purpose of timestamping is to avoid the use of locks.


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    • Distributed Databases problems

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    • 1. A distributed unit of work allows various statements within a unit of work to refer to multiple remote DBMS locations.

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    • 2. Databases that are stored on computers at multiple locations and are not interconnected by a network are known as distributed databases.

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    • 3. Synchronization for pull replication is less disruptive and occurs only when needed by each site, not when a central master site thinks it is best to update.

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    • 4. Periodic data are data that are physically altered once added to the store.

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    • 5. Static extract is used for ongoing warehouse maintenance.

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    • 6. The problem of concurrency control is more complex in a distributed database.

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    • 7. An increasingly popular option for data distribution as well as for fault tolerance of any database is to store a separate copy of the database at each of two or more sites.

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    • 8. Asynchronous technology can result in unsatisfactorily slow response time because the distributed DBMS is spending considerable time checking that an update is accurately and completely propagated across the network.

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    • 9. In a semijoin, only the joining attribute is sent from one site to another, and then only the required rows are returned.

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    • 10. With failure transparency, all of the actions of a transaction are committed or none of them are committed.

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