The Phoenix project is an effort to increase the availability of applications and in many cases
avoid the operational task of coping with errors. Our initial system (Phoenix/ODBC) focuses
on database session availability. Phoenix/ODBC provides persistent server sessions to ODBC
clients, sessions that can survive a server crash without the client application being aware of
the outage, except for possible timing considerations. Performance studies indicate the system
overhead for Phoenix/ODBC persistent database sessions is modest.

The online demonstration of Phoenix/ODBC has three components:

Slides from our demo presentation at the conference.

Screen snapshots demonstrating a persistent client-server database session using Phoenix/ODBC.

Technical Report describing the design, implementation and evaluation of Phoenix/ODBC.

Please visit the Phoenix project web page for more information.

 
Phoenix Project Page: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db/phoenix/

Contact: barga@microsoft.com, lomet@microsoft.com

Created: August 13th 1999, Roger S. Barga