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Customer Oriented Dependability Analysis for Relational Database Management Systems

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Abstract

Permanent communication with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) is an important factor for every enterprise. Information of a database server must be available to the authorized users of a Network in real time. The debility of accessing the data during a communication interruption may result to the decrease of the productivity or the amplification of customer’s dissatisfaction inside an enterprise. There are five possible reasons where the users of a network cannot access the database server data:

  1. •

    Communication between server and client has been lost, although both machines are in an operational state.

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    Database server is in a non-operational state.

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    Client workstation is in a non-operational state.

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    A severe database service has been stopped due to software or hardware problems.

  5. •

    Connection to port where the database server listen packets is impossible.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean, 83200, Karlovassi — Samos, Greece

    Panagiotis Tsopelas, John Violentis & Agapios Platis

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  1. TÜV Süddeutschland, Dudenstrasse 28, D-68167, Mannheim, Germany

    Cornelia Spitzer Dipl.-Math.

  2. Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (HSK), CH-5232, Villigen-HSK, Switzerland

    Ulrich Schmocker PhD

  3. Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), CH-5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland

    Vinh N. Dang PhD

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Tsopelas, P., Violentis, J., Platis, A. (2004). Customer Oriented Dependability Analysis for Relational Database Management Systems. In: Spitzer, C., Schmocker, U., Dang, V.N. (eds) Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-410-4_257

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