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Mnesia
User's Guide
Version 4.5

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Chapters

• Introduction
  • Top of chapter
  • About Mnesia
  • The Mnesia DataBase Management System (DBMS)
• Getting Started with Mnesia
  • Top of chapter
  • Starting Mnesia for the first time
  • An Introductory Example
• Building A Mnesia Database
  • Top of chapter
  • Defining a Schema
  • The Data Model
  • Starting Mnesia
  • Creating New Tables
• Transactions and Other Access Contexts
  • Top of chapter
  • Transaction Properties
  • Locking
  • Dirty Operations
  • Record Names versus Table Names
  • Activity Concept and Various Access Contexts
  • Nested transactions
  • Pattern Matching
  • Iteration
• Miscellaneous Mnesia Features
  • Top of chapter
  • Indexing
  • Distribution and Fault Tolerance
  • Table Fragmentation
  • Local Content Tables
  • Disc-less Nodes
  • More Schema Management
  • Mnesia Event Handling
  • Debugging Mnesia Applications
  • Concurrent Processes in Mnesia
  • Prototyping
  • Object Based Programming with Mnesia
• Mnesia System Information
  • Top of chapter
  • Database Configuration Data
  • Core Dumps
  • Dumping Tables
  • Checkpoints
  • Files
  • Loading of Tables at Start-up
  • Recovery from Communication Failure
  • Recovery of Transactions
  • Backup, Fallback, and Disaster Recovery
• Combining Mnesia with SNMP
  • Top of chapter
  • Combining Mnesia and SNMP
• Appendix A: Mnesia Error Messages
  • Top of chapter
  • Errors in Mnesia
• Appendix B: The Backup Call Back Interface
  • Top of chapter
  • mnesia_backup callback behavior
• Appendix C: The Activity Access Call Back Interface
  • Top of chapter
  • mnesia_access callback behavior
• Appendix D: The Fragmented Table Hashing Call Back Interface
  • Top of chapter
  • mnesia_frag_hash callback behavior

Mnesia User's Guide

Version 4.5

October 6 2011