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Transactions: Write skew & why we need serialization?

Up until now we have seen various problems that can arise due to concurrent request for both read as well as write access of a…

Posted on February 7, 2022February 7, 2022
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Transactions: Tackling lost updates

As part of read committed isolation and snapshot isolation, we primarily focussed on tactics to ensure correctness of reads in a concurrent transactional system. But…

Posted on February 4, 2022February 4, 2022
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  • Transaction

Transactions: Snapshot Isolation

In our previous post we covered read committed isolation level. Read committed isolation level ensures that: We cannot perform reads across transactions It prevents dirty…

Posted on February 3, 2022February 3, 2022
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  • Transaction

Transactions: Read committed isolation

Ensuring that each resource is accessed and modified by a single user at a time is very complex on the application layer. This is why…

Posted on January 31, 2022January 31, 2022
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Transactions: Atomicity & Isolation

In last post, we saw the use case of why we need transactions to maintain a consistent state of our storage system. A database is…

Posted on January 28, 2022January 28, 2022
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  • Transaction

Transactions: Why we need all or nothing?

In real life applications, things can go wrong for scenarios which you have never considered while designing the application. These failures can happen due to…

Posted on January 25, 2022January 25, 2022
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