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Do you remember the levels of transaction isolation?

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Transaction isolation levels determine how and when the changes made by one transaction become visible to other transactions. The main isolation levels in DBMS:

  • Read Uncommitted — the lowest isolation level. A transaction can read data that has been modified but not yet committed (dirty read).
  • Read Committed — a transaction only sees committed data. Dirty reads are prevented, but non-repeatable reads and phantom reads can occur.
  • Repeatable Read — guarantees that data read by a transaction will not change until it completes. Non-repeatable reads are prevented, but phantom reads can occur.
  • Serializable — the strictest level. Transactions are executed as if they were sequential, fully preventing phantom reads.

In C#, when working with TransactionScope or SqlTransaction, you can specify the isolation level using the IsolationLevel parameter.