DBMS-DATABASE RECOVERY SYSTEMS

DBMS-DATABASE RECOVERY SYSTEMS
31. When using a transaction log based recovery scheme, it might improve performance as well as providing a recovery mechanism by
  • writing the appropriate log records to disk during the transaction's execution
  • writing the log records to dick when each transaction commits
  • never writing the log records to disk.
  • waiting to write the log records until multiple transactions commit and writting them as a batch.
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32. Which of the following is an example of a NO-UNDO/REDO algorithm /
  • Shadow paging
  • Immediate update
  • Deferred update
  • None of these
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33. Which of the following is an example of a UNDO/REDO algorithm ?
  • Shadow paging
  • Immediate update
  • Deferrd update
  • None of these
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34. If the shadowing approach is used for flushing a data item back to disk, then the item is written to
  • the same disk location from which it was read.
  • disk before the transaction commits.
  • disk only after the transaction commits.
  • a different location on disk.
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35. If the shadowing approach is used for flushing a data item back to disk, then the item is written to
  • the same disk location form which it was read.
  • disk before the trasaction commits
  • disk only after the transaction commits.
  • a different location on disk.
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36. Shadow paging was introduced by
  • Lorie
  • Codd
  • IBM
  • Boyce
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37. Shadow paging technique maintains
  • two page tables
  • three page tables
  • four page tables
  • five page tables
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38. The checkpoint technique is used to limit
  • the volume of log information.
  • amount of searching
  • subsequent processing that is needed to carry out on the transaction log file.
  • All of these
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39. Which of the following recovery technique does not need log ?
  • Shadow paging
  • Immediate update
  • Deferred update
  • None of these
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40. The failure may be the result of
  • a system crash due to hardware or software erors
  • a media failure such as head crash
  • a software error in the application such as a logical error in the program that is accessing the database
  • All of these.
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