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Database Management Systems

Foundations of DBMS6

Relational Model, Algebra & Calculus6

Integrity Constraints & Normal Forms6

File Organization & Indexing7

Transactions & Concurrency Control9

Transactions and the ACID properties
Schedules and serializability
Conflict serializability and view serializability
Lock-based concurrency control
SQL isolation levels and multiple granularity locking
Timestamp ordering and optimistic concurrency control
Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC)
Deadlock handling in databases
Crash recovery and write-ahead logging

Query Processing, Optimization & Distributed DBs5

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Database Management Systems

Foundations of DBMS6

Relational Model, Algebra & Calculus6

Integrity Constraints & Normal Forms6

File Organization & Indexing7

Transactions & Concurrency Control9

Transactions and the ACID properties
Schedules and serializability
Conflict serializability and view serializability
Lock-based concurrency control
SQL isolation levels and multiple granularity locking
Timestamp ordering and optimistic concurrency control
Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC)
Deadlock handling in databases
Crash recovery and write-ahead logging

Query Processing, Optimization & Distributed DBs5

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Conflict serializability and view serializability

The precise definition of a conflicting operation pair, the precedence graph test for conflict serializability, and how view serializability captures a few extra safe schedules that conflict serializability misses.

10 min readUpdated 2026-09-04dbmsconflict-serializabilityview-serializability