The Addison-Wesley textbook Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems by Bernstein, Hadzilacos and Goodman — which is unfortunately out of print — can be found online:
The slides used in lectures are below.
Note that these are slides, not notes. The slides alone are unlikely to be an adequate source of revision material.
The coursework for this module will consist of a short test that will be held during the regularly scheduled lecture slot at 12.00 on Thursday 13th of March in QG21.
A simple test is available here. (And the answers are here.)
Please note the following regarding the assessment of this exercise. Students will be credited only with those correct classifications after the first 28. For example, if a student gets 40 of the possible 56 classifications correct, their mark will be 12/28; that is (40-28)/(56-28).
This exercise will constitute all of the continuous assessment component of the module, and will thus count with a weight of 20% towards the overall mark for the module (the balance of 80% being from the examination).