Q. If there is a hardware malfunction or a bug in the database that causes the loss of content of volatile storage, it is called as ________

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Q. The assumption that the hardware errors bring the system to a halt is called as ________

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Q. Which of the following is not a classification of storage

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Q. If a failure has occurred in the midst of a transfer, it is called as _________

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Q. State true or false: The destination block has incorrect information in case of a total failure

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Q. The partitions of the database into fixed length storage units are called as __________

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Q. The blocks residing on the disk are referred to as ___________

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Q. The area of memory where blocks temporarily reside is called as ________

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Q. The most widely used structure for recording database modification is called as _______

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Q. An update log record describes a ________ database write

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Q. Which of the following fields does the update log record have?

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Q. The unique identifier of the transaction that performed the write operation is called as _______

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Q. The value of the data item prior to the write is called as _________

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Q. If a transaction does not modify the database until it has committed it is said to use a _______ modification technique

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Q. We say that a transaction has been ________ when its commit log record has been output to stable storage.

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Q. State true or false: Using checkpoints reduces overhead

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Q. A __________ checkpoint is a checkpoint where transactions are allowed to perform updates even while buffer blocks are being written out.

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Q. If the database modifications occur while the transaction is still active, the transaction is said to use the __________ modification technique

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Q. The log is a sequence of _________ recording all the update activities in the database.

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Q. The current copy of the database is identified by a pointer, called ____________ which is stored on disk.

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