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Database Recovery

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  • • Subject Focus: DBMS Notes in English (BCA / B.Tech Syllabus)
  • • Core Topic: Database Recovery - General Topics
  • • Overview: Database Recovery in DBMS: Database Recovery is the process of restoring a database to its correct, consistent state after a failure. Failures can incl...
  • • Key Concepts: Database recovery, Log based shadow paging Hindi, Crash recovery techniques,

Database Recovery in DBMS:

Database Recovery is the process of restoring a database to its correct, consistent state after a failure. Failures can include system crashes, transaction errors, or disk failures. The recovery mechanism ensures the atomicity and durability properties of transactions.

Common Recovery Techniques:
  • Immediate Recovery (using Undo/Redo):
    • Rollback (Undo): Reverts the changes made by incomplete or failed transactions.
    • Rollforward (Redo): Re-applies the changes of committed transactions that were not permanently saved to disk before a crash.
  • Log-Based Recovery: This is the most common method. The DBMS maintains a log file that records all database modifications. After a failure, the log is used to undo or redo transactions to bring the database to a consistent state.
  • Checkpoint Recovery: To speed up recovery, the system periodically creates a checkpoint, which is a snapshot of the database state. After a crash, the recovery process only needs to consider transactions that occurred after the most recent checkpoint.
  • Media Recovery: This is used in case of a disk failure. The database is restored from the most recent backup, and then the transaction logs are used to roll forward and re-apply all subsequent committed transactions.

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Database Recovery in DBMS: Database Recovery is the process of restoring a database to its correct, consistent state after a failure.
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In this Chapter

Database Recovery
What is DBMS in English
What is a Database in English
Advantages and Disadvantages of DBMS in English
Data Independence in English – What is Data Independence?
BCA || DBMS(Database Management System) 2025 (Supplementary) Paper || MDSU Exam Paper
What is an Entity in DBMS?
Database Languages
What is an Entity Set?
Entity-Relationship (ER) Model
Data Models & Their Types
JOINs and Their Types
Tuples and Their Types
What is a Database Instance?
What is a Domain in DBMS?
Database Interfaces and Their Types
Data Abstraction in DBMS
Data Integrity in DBMS
What is a Database Schema?
Database Constraints
Keys in DBMS and Their Types
What is a Data Dictionary?
What is a Relationship Set?
What is a Distributed File System?
Difference Between DBMS & Filesystem
DBMS Security
Relational Algebra
Inference Rules
Dependencies and Their Types
File Organization
Distributed Database System
Normalization
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