Dr. Michael Stonebraker's 10 fears about the future of the DBMS field Introduction The performance of Db2 depends on many things. It spreads from the application and the SQL, through the Db2 itself, down to the underlying system configuration. We can even expand it a bit more, I mean a...
While Locking and other means of concurrency control are essential to any database management system, they are often the cause of problems in today's production systems. Applications are not always designed with concurrency in mind, so it is not uncommon that with increased transactions volumes...
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