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Transaction Terminology (cont)

The READ, WRITE, ABORT, COMMIT operations:
  • occur in the context of some transaction T
  • involve manipulation of data items X, Y, ...   (READ and WRITE)
The operations are typically denoted as:

RT(X) read item X in transaction T
WT(X) write item X in transaction T
AT abort transaction T
CT commit transaction T