For those interested, here are some more references on this sort of thing: Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems by Bernstein, Hadzilacos and Go

For those interested, here are some more references on this sort of thing: Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems by Bernstein, Hadzilacos and Goodman - http://research.microsoft.com/~philbe/ccontrol/ http://research.microsoft.com/~philbe/ccontrol/ (downloadable zip/pdf available there) Recovery in Parallel Database Systems by Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd - http://tinyurl.com/2dku75 http://tinyurl.com/2dku75 Transaction Processing Systems by Krishnamurthy and Murthy - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=131334 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=131334 Readings in Database Systems by Stonebreaker - http://tinyurl.com/22btgh http://tinyurl.com/22btgh and of course Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques by Gray and Reuter - http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7a http://tinyurl.com/ywrx7a