Masking System Crashes in Database Application Programs

Summary: Introduces log-based recovery that masks crashes in database application programs, preserving consistent program state across interactions with users and the DBMS. A formal language semantics shows logging/recovery can be added without modifying applications. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8014
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,189 | 9.52%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Johann Christoph Freytag (IBM)
2. Flaviu Cristian (IBM)
3. Bo Kaehler (IBM; Runit)

BibTeX Citation

@article{freytag_vldb87,
        title = {{Masking System Crashes in Database Application Programs}},
        author = {Freytag, Johann Christoph and Cristian, Flaviu and Kaehler, Bo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        year = {1987}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,586	Robustness to Crash in a Distributed Database: A Non Shared-Memory Multi-Processor Approach	1984	VLDB	8.3771396e-05

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