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Unit 4 · Database Management Systems Paper 2 CS · September 2022

Consider the following statements:
Statement I: Conservative 2PL is a deadlock-free protocol.
Statement II: Thomas's write rule enforces conflict serializability.
Statement III: The timestamp ordering protocol ensures serializability based on the order of transaction timestamps.
Which of the following is correct?

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Correct answer: B. Statements I and III true, Statement II false

Explanation

Conservative 2PL locks everything in advance, so no deadlock. Thomas's write rule ignores obsolete writes and allows view-serializable but not conflict-serializable schedules. TO orders by timestamp.

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