Sybase 3.8 manual transaction management, transaction processing

Glossary

transaction

An activity or request. Additions, changes, and deletions are typical transactions stored in a computer.

transaction management

A method of handling electronic messaging such that only committed messages are sent and only messages received and committed are considered delivered.

transaction processing

A method of handling computer operations in which the operations take place immediately upon receipt of the processing request. Also called real-time or online system. Compare to batch processing.

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