#18 - Transactions with Two-Phase Locking ✸ Firebolt Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems) @CMUDatabaseGroup

Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Andy Pavlo (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/)
Slides: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025/slides/18-twophaselocking.pdf
Notes: https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025/notes/18-twophaselocking.pdf

🛢🗲Database Flash Talk🗲🛢
Benjamin Wagner (linkedin.com/in/wagjamin)
Firebolt (firebolt.io/)
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15-445/645 Intro to Database Systems (Fall 2025)
Carnegie Mellon University
https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2025/

#18 - Transactions with Two-Phase Locking ✸ Firebolt Database Talk (CMU Intro to Database Systems)

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