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Consider the following log sequence of two transactions on a bank account, with initial balance $12000,$ that transfer $2000$ to a mortgage payment and then apply a $5\%$ interest. 

  1. T1 start 
  2. T1 B old $=12000$ new $=10000$
  3. T1 M old $=0$ new $=2000$
  4. T1 commit
  5. T2 start
  6. T2 B old $=10000$ new $=10500$
  7. T2 commit

Suppose the database system crashes just before log record $7$ is written. When  the system is restarted, which one statement is true of the recovery procedure? 

  1. We must redo log record $6$ to set B to $10500$ 
  2. We must undo log record $6$ to set B to $10000$ and then redo log records $2$  and $3$
  3. We need not redo log records $2$ and $3$ because transaction T1 has committed 
  4. We can apply redo and undo operations in arbitrary order because they are idempotent
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Answer should be B. Here we are not using checkpoints so, redo log records $2$ and $3$ and undo log record $6$.
Consider the following steps taken from the book 'Navathe':

PROCEDURE RIU_M

  1. Use two lists of transactions maintained by the system: the committed transactions since the last checkpoint and the active transactions
  2. Undo all the $write$_$item$ operations of the $active$ (uncommitted) transaction, using the UNDO procedure. The operations should be undone in the reverse order in which they were written into the log.
  3. Redo all the $write$_$item$ operations of the $committed$ transactions from the log, in the order in which they were written into the log.
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Checkpoint : Checkpoint is a mechanism where all the previous logs are removed from the system and stored permanently in a storage disk. Checkpoint declares a point before which the DBMS was in consistent state, and all the transactions were committed.


When a system with concurrent transactions crashes and recovers, it behaves in the following manner −

 

 

=>The recovery system reads the logs backwards from the end to the last checkpoint.

=>It maintains two lists, an undo-list and a redo-list.

=>If the recovery system sees a log with <tn, start=""> and <tn, commit=""> or just <tn, commit="">, it puts the transaction in the redo-list.

=>If the recovery system sees a log with <tn, start=""> but no commit or abort log found, it puts the transaction in undo-list.

All the transactions in the undo-list are then undone and their logs are removed. All the transactions in the redo-list and their previous logs are removed and then redone before saving their logs

so we must undo log record 6 to set B to 10000 and then redo log records 2 and 3 because system fail before commit operation. So we need to undone active transactions(T2) and redo committed transactions (T1)

So Answer is B redo log records 2 and 3 and undo log record 6

 

 

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The database can be modified using two approaches by executing logs:

  1. Deferred database modification: permanent database update happens when transaction commits and only new values needs in logs.
  2. Immediate database modification: permanent database update happens immediately and old and new both values needs in logs.

By looking on logs and options in this question, it seems to follow immediate database modification. It means till crash of system, few of log records has written in database. But system do not know after crashing that how many log records already written in database.

 

So after restart system, undo all uncommitted transactions like T2 (reverse log record 6 to set B back to 10000) and then redo all committed transactions like T1 (log records 2 and 3). Thus, it needs to undone active transactions (T2) and redo committed transactions (T1). Process Steps:

  1. Go to log record (vii) where system crashed and reads the logs backwards.
  2. If find some committed transaction then puts to Redo List; If find some uncommitted transaction then executes its logs in reverse like T2 writes B to 10000.
  3. Redo T1's log records like write B to 10000 and M to 2000 without caring already existing values of A & B in database.

Answer obviously is B. No need to discuss checkpoints for answer of this question.

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