Talk:Commitment ordering

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  • I don't know about the topic but this article needs a severe cleanup per the Manual of style. For starters, it needs a single opening paragraph that encapsulates the main concepts, then start with section breaks and the table of contents. Thatcher131 (talk) 18:12, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Pls check last cleanup and further advise if needed. Thnx. Comps 20:07, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Thatcher131 (talk),

I believe your specific comments for the cleanup of the article Commitment ordering have been met by 8 September 2006 (UTC).

The tag that you have put in the article is now too vague to provide guidance, and requests the addition of more specific comments, if needed. Please advise. Thank you.

CC: Thatcher131 (talk)

Comps 12:06, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

  • Well, it definitely looks like a Wikipedia article now, so I removed the cleanup tag. I still don't quite understand it, though, it's written at a higher level than I can fully grasp. It might benefit from rewriting the first paragraph to be even more basic; "Commitment ordering is programmed into large databases that are accessed simultaneously by multiple users to avoid transaction conflicts and loss of data" or something like that, and giving one or two examples like recording sales transactions at large department stores with many registers, or airline reservation and ticketing systems, or something like that. (Assuming I've even understood the principle correctly) :) Thatcher131 11:21, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your input. This is a technical-mathematical article. It is not an easy reading. An effort has been made to write it completely without mathematical notation and to reduce mathematical terminology without harming accuracy, while capturing the main results about the subject (in the reference). This, to make it accessible also to people not fluent in the language of mathematics. However, some mathematical terms like graph, cycle in graph, necessary condition, serializability, etc., could not be eliminated. As such every sentence and every word are important, and have been carefully considered. Comps 17:37, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

See Talk:Global serializability for additional discussion relating to Commitment ordering. - JCLately (talk) 16:54, 20 May 2008 (UTC)