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What levels of transaction isolation do you know?
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Transaction isolation levels determine how concurrent transactions interact with data and what anomalies are possible. The main isolation levels, standardized by SQL, are as follows:
- Read Uncommitted — a transaction can see changes made by other transactions before they are committed. Dirty reads are possible.
- Read Committed — a transaction only sees data that has been committed by other transactions. It prevents dirty reads but allows non-repeatable reads.
- Repeatable Read — guarantees that data read in a transaction will not change until the transaction completes. It prevents non-repeatable reads but allows phantom reads.
- Serializable — the strictest level, transactions are executed as if they were sequential, preventing all types of anomalies.
In Go, when working with databases through packages like database/sql, the isolation level can be set via driver parameters or SQL queries (e.g., SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL ...). The specific support depends on the database management system used.