A cache consistency maintenance procedure to select one of a detection-based cache consistency maintenance procedure optimized for record-based locking and an avoidance-based consistency-based maintenance procedure optimized for table and block-based locking. To support the characteristic of DBMS in...http://www.google.de/patents/US7174417?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7174417 - Buffer allocation method supporting detection-based and avoidance-based consistency maintenance policies in a shared disk-based multi-database management system
