Isolated Transaction
An Isolated Transaction is a data transaction that is not visible to any other transaction until that particular change in that transaction is committed.
- Context:
- It can be an Atomic Isolated Transaction.
- It can be a Consistent Isolated Transaction.
- It can be a Durable Isolated Transaction.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Isolation Level, ACID Transaction, Database, Concurrency (Computer Science).
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/isolation_(database_systems) Retrieved:2020-6-3.
- In database systems, isolation determines how transaction integrity is visible to other users and systems. For example, when a user is creating a Purchase Order and has created the header, but not the Purchase Order lines, is the header available for other systems users (carrying out concurrent operations, such as a report on Purchase Orders) to see? (Refers to current, not past database systems)
A lower isolation level increases the ability of many users to access the same data at the same time, but increases the number of concurrency effects (such as dirty reads or lost updates) users might encounter. Conversely, a higher isolation level reduces the types of concurrency effects that users may encounter, but requires more system resources and increases the chances that one transaction will block another. [1] Isolation is typically defined at database level as a property that defines how/when the changes made by one operation become visible to others. On older systems, it may be implemented systemically, for example through the use of temporary tables. In two-tier systems, a Transaction Processing (TP) manager is required to maintain isolation. In n-tier systems (such as multiple websites attempting to book the last seat on a flight), a combination of stored procedures and transaction management is required to commit the booking and send confirmation to the customer. [2]
Isolation is one of the ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) properties.
- In database systems, isolation determines how transaction integrity is visible to other users and systems. For example, when a user is creating a Purchase Order and has created the header, but not the Purchase Order lines, is the header available for other systems users (carrying out concurrent operations, such as a report on Purchase Orders) to see? (Refers to current, not past database systems)
- ↑ "Isolation Levels in the Database Engine", Technet, Microsoft, https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189122(v=SQL.105).aspx
- ↑ "The Architecture of Transaction Processing Systems", Chapter 23, Evolution of Processing Systems, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, retrieved 20 March 2014, http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~liu/cse315/23.pdf
2018
- https://geeksforgeeks.org/acid-properties-in-dbms/
- QUOTE: Isolation: This property ensures that multiple transactions can occur concurrently without leading to the inconsistency of database state. Transactions occur independently without interference. Changes occurring in a particular transaction will not be visible to any other transaction until that particular change in that transaction is written to memory or has been committed. This property ensures that the execution of transactions concurrently will result in a state that is equivalent to a state achieved these were executed serially in some order.
- QUOTE: Isolation: This property ensures that multiple transactions can occur concurrently without leading to the inconsistency of database state. Transactions occur independently without interference. Changes occurring in a particular transaction will not be visible to any other transaction until that particular change in that transaction is written to memory or has been committed. This property ensures that the execution of transactions concurrently will result in a state that is equivalent to a state achieved these were executed serially in some order.