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Summary: excellent book
Review: Phil Bernstein is one of the gurus in the database community. This is an excellent book. It is well written and very informative. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Excellent overview of Transaction Processing
Review: Professional treatise on TP. Invaluable for IT managers who do not specialise in this area and need an overview in order to manage TP project.
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Summary: Essential reading for back office server developers
Review: This book has a special place in my heart, since I read it front to back on a plane before an interview with my current employer. The information I picked up was timely to say the least. Even if you are not interviewing for job, this book will be a very useful for those unfamiliar with basic to intermediate TP concepts. While the products the book covers are not as snazzy as the OTS systems and EJB, they are the rocks that are keeping everything working today while these newer technologies get their kinks worked out. This should be required reading for any project that is developing a big system. I read it again recently and found that I had missed a lot from the first read. To me, this book is as important as the Design Patterns book.
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Summary: A very good introduction into TP concepts
Review: This book is a very good introduction to transaction processing. It did a wonderful job of explaining concepts, and gave concise, clear examples. I would recommend this book as a primary text for anyone wanting to get an overview of the main TP ideas, with the Gray & Reuter book as a supplemental text. The book is very readable, too.
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Summary: Understandable...
Review: This book is my first "real" visit to transaction processing. As a host, this books welcomes me very well. When I knock its door, the preface says welcome in in a very friendly matter, and the words from Jim Gray's is a nice one to get to know each other with the book very well. The first conversation between us in the first two chapters make me very anthusiast to continue the conversation the next day. The next day (ch.3 &4) , well, we don't know why we have to talk about RPC and Message Queueing. I am wondering if the chapters are interesting for other visitors, for me..., it is a little dry... And after a little tea, the book shows its photo album. It shows some of its good friends, from the war veteran CICS, Tuxedo until some more sexies friends like Encina, OTS, and MTS... Then..., we talk more seriously after the chapter. But still the discussion is not too difficult to follow... Who would say that Locking (ch. 6), high availability (ch.7), database recovery (ch.8), two phase commit (ch.9), and replication(ch.10) are easy topics ? Fortunately, the book is friendly enough not to tell all the detail of the locking, commit, and replication in detail..., it asks me to visit its old friend: Jim Gray book and rich of its friends in bibliograpy...
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Summary: Understandable...
Review: This book is my first "real" visit to transaction processing. As a host, this books welcomes me very well. When I knock its door, the preface says welcome in in a very friendly matter, and the words from Jim Gray's is a nice one to get to know each other with the book very well. The first conversation between us in the first two chapters make me very anthusiast to continue the conversation the next day. The next day (ch.3 &4) , well, we don't know why we have to talk about RPC and Message Queueing. I am wondering if the chapters are interesting for other visitors, for me..., it is a little dry... And after a little tea, the book shows its photo album. It shows some of its good friends, from the war veteran CICS, Tuxedo until some more sexies friends like Encina, OTS, and MTS... Then..., we talk more seriously after the chapter. But still the discussion is not too difficult to follow... Who would say that Locking (ch. 6), high availability (ch.7), database recovery (ch.8), two phase commit (ch.9), and replication(ch.10) are easy topics ? Fortunately, the book is friendly enough not to tell all the detail of the locking, commit, and replication in detail..., it asks me to visit its old friend: Jim Gray book and rich of its friends in bibliograpy...
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Summary: Understandable...
Review: This book is my first "real" visit to transaction processing. As a host, this books welcomes me very well. When I knock its door, the preface says welcome in in a very friendly matter, and the words from Jim Gray's is a nice one to get to know each other with the book very well. The first conversation between us in the first two chapters make me very anthusiast to continue the conversation the next day. The next day (ch.3 &4) , well, we don't know why we have to talk about RPC and Message Queueing. I am wondering if the chapters are interesting for other visitors, for me..., it is a little dry... And after a little tea, the book shows its photo album. It shows some of its good friends, from the war veteran CICS, Tuxedo until some more sexies friends like Encina, OTS, and MTS... Then..., we talk more seriously after the chapter. But still the discussion is not too difficult to follow... Who would say that Locking (ch. 6), high availability (ch.7), database recovery (ch.8), two phase commit (ch.9), and replication(ch.10) are easy topics ? Fortunately, the book is friendly enough not to tell all the detail of the locking, commit, and replication in detail..., it asks me to visit its old friend: Jim Gray book and rich of its friends in bibliograpy...
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Summary: Good light-weight introduction
Review: This book provides a pretty good introduction to transaction processing in easy to understand language. However, if you are planning to get into the more technical aspects, I suggest going straight to Jim Gray's Transaction Processing because it has basically has everything this book has, and a lot more.
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Summary: Good light-weight introduction
Review: This book provides a pretty good introduction to transaction processing in easy to understand language. However, if you are planning to get into the more technical aspects, I suggest going straight to Jim Gray's Transaction Processing because it has basically has everything this book has, and a lot more.
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Summary: Buy this book if you plan on touching MTS!
Review: This book says more about the programming model implied by MTS than any book currently on the market, despite the fact that MTS is covered only briefly in one chapter.
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