Analysis and Evaluation of Two-Phase Locking (2PL)

Let's analyze and evaluate the two-phase locking mechanism for concurrency management.

Handling of deadlocks

A situation might arise where transaction A is waiting for a long time for transaction B to finish, since we use a lot of locks simultaneously. In general, we refer to the situation where a cycle of transactions waits for one another to release locks as a deadlock.

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