Experimental assessment of COTS DBMS robustness under transient faults

Proceedings - 1999 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 201-208

  Costa, Diamantino ^a   Madeira, Henrique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT DETECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE;

COMMON OFF THE SHELVES; DATA-BASE SERVERS; DATABASE APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT; PREMATURE TERMINATION; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTED FAULT INJECTIONS; TARGET SYSTEMS; TRANSIENT FAULTS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84957076824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.1999.816230     Document Type: Conference Paper

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