The following books are on Reserve in Snell Library:

• Principles of Transaction Processing for the Systems Professional by Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft) and Eric Newcomer (Iona, Waltham, MA).
• Databases and Transaction Processing: An Application-Oriented Approach by Philip M. Lewis, Arthur Bernstein, and Michael Kifer (all at the State University of New York at Stony Brook).
• Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery by Gerhard Weikum (University of the Saarland in Saarbruecken, Germany) and Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany).

Links to various Transaction Processing courses, introductions, etc.

• " Nuts and Bolts of Transaction Processing" by Subrahmanyam Allamaraju.
• Phil Bernstein, one of the authors of our textbook, teaches the subject at the University of Washington. He has a lot of information on line, some of which we'll be using in this course.