This document discusses database transactions and improving database performance. It defines transactions as operations on a database like create, retrieve, update and delete. Transactions can involve one or more of these operations on one or more tables. The document then provides examples of transactions for an appointment booking system and boat rental system. It discusses using indexes, views and denormalization to improve query performance by reducing the need to join tables. Permissions can be granted and revoked to users and roles to control database access.

1. Er. Nawaraj Bhandari
Topic 10
Supporting Transactions

2. Transactions
 A transaction is an operation carried out on the database.
 Transactions can generally be identified as retrievals, inserts, updates
and deletes. This is remembered by the acronym CRUD (Create,
Retrieve, Update and Delete).
 Transactions can be made up of one or more operations.

3. Identify Transactions
What do they do?
What tables do they affect?
What attributes do they affect?
How often do they run?
How many rows do they affect?

4. Transactions of Appointment System
Transaction 1 – Add a new patient
Transaction 2 – Delete a patient
Transaction 3 – Record a appointment
Transaction 4 – Show a detail list of patient and the appointments they
have had with the doctors
Transaction 5 – Show a list of patients
Transaction 6 – Update a patient record to change their address
 The tables required for this system are Patient, Appointment and
Doctor.

5. CRUD Matrix of Appointment System (Blank)
Transaction
Relation
Patient Appointment Doctor
T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
T6

6. CRUD Matrix of Appointment System
Transaction
Relation
Patient Appointment Doctor
T1 C
T2 D
T3 C
T4 R R R
T5 R
T6 U

7. Transactions in the Boat Hire System
a. Enter the details of all the boats. Update any details for boats. Delete
boats.
b. Enter the details for customers. Update any details for customers.
c. Enter the details for hiring of boats.
d. Enter the details for any damage to boats.
e. List the details of all the boats.
f. List the details of all the customers; their hire and for which boats.
g. List the details for damage, to which boats, during which hire periods and
for which customers.
h. Provide a summary of the hires for a particular period.

8. Transaction
Relation
Boat Customer Hire Damage
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Blank CRUD Matrix

9. Transaction
Relation
Boat Customer Hire Damage
A C U D
B C U
C C
D C
E R
F R R R
G R R R R
H R
Completed CRUD Matrix

10. Literary agent
 Fill in the CRUD matrix below to show the following transactions.
Transaction 1. Add a new Author.
Transaction 2. Create a new agent and set up an appointment for her.
Transaction 3. Delete an author and all the appointments they have
had.
Transaction 4. Show a list of Agents details and the Appointments they
have had and with which Authors.
Transaction 5. Update an Agent’s address
Transaction 6. Delete an Appointment.

11. Roles in a System
 Not every user is the same.
 Users will need to access different parts of the system and access it
in different ways.

12. Boat Hire System - Roles
 Manager – should be able to access all parts of the system, because
their role means that they might have to add and delete any data and
be able to see anything.
 Admin Assistant – just carries out routine tasks, such as adding any
new customers and recording damage to boats.
Table/User Boat Customer Rental Damage
Manager CRUD CRUD CRUD CRUD
Admin
Assistant
R CRU CRU CRU

13. SQL Facilities to Manage Roles
 Grant – gives a particular role or user in the database system access
to an object (such as a table).
 Revoke – removes access to an object (such as a table) from a
particular role or user in the database system.

14. Grant
 GRANT CREATE ON Boat TO Admin;
This command will give the role of Admin the right to create data on
the table Boat.
 GRANT ALL ON Boat TO Manager;
This command will give the role of Manager the right to carry out any
operation on the table Boat.

15. Revoke
 REVOKE ALL ON Boat FROM Admin;
– this command will take away any access rights from the role of Admin
on the table Boat.
 REVOKE DELETE ON Boat FROM Manager;
– this command will take away the right to delete data from the Boat
table by the Manager.

16. Performance
 The term ‘Performance’ is generally used by database professionals to
refer to the way in which a query behaves when run against a
database.
 Increasingly, databases contain large amounts of data...
 The rate at which a query can return an answer can be slowed when it
has to sort though large numbers of records.
 Performance becomes an issue...

17. Indexes
 An index is a structure in a database that helps queries run more
quickly.
 An index is a data structure that stores the values for a specific
column in a table that makes easier to find a record.
 Improves performance
 Index can also be unique which will prevent a duplicate value from
being added to that column.

18. Improving Performance with the Use of Views
View of
selected rows
or columns of
these tables
Table 1
Table 2
Table 3
Query

19. View
 A view is a virtual table which
completely acts as a real table.
 The use of view as a way to improve
performance.
 Views can be used to combine tables,
so that instead of joining tables in a
query, the query will just access the
view and thus be quicker.

20. View
 We can perform different SQL queries.
 DESC department_worker_view;

21. De-Normalisation
 Normalising our data model means we will have the minimum amount
of redundancy.
 If we are running a query that joins tables, this will be slower than
running a query against a single table or view. This can have an effect
on performance.
 Denormalisation can be done by including an attribute in a table that
should not be there according to the rules of normalisation.

22. References
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7605707/clustered-vs-non-
clustered

23. ANY QUESTIONS?