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Transaction
Quick Definition
Single unit of work that succeeds or fails completely
Full Definition
A sequence of database operations treated as a single unit that succeeds or fails completely.
Examples
BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK, isolation levels, savepoints
Related Terms
acid
concurrency-control
More Database Terms
Partitioning
Dividing tables into smaller pieces for better performance
Isolation Level
Degree of visibility between concurrent transactions
Database
Organized collection of structured data for storage and retrieval
Cursor
Database object for traversing result sets row by row
View
Virtual table defined by a SQL query
Query Optimization
Improving query performance through various techniques