Junior — Middle
Could you explain the principles underlying transactional reliability in databases known as ACID?
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Answer from AI
ACID is a set of properties that guarantee reliable transactions in databases:
- Atomicity: The transaction is completed in full or not at all. If something goes wrong, all changes are rolled back.
- Consistency: The transaction transitions the database from one valid state to another, without violating any rules or constraints.
- Isolation: Parallel transactions do not affect each other as if they were executed sequentially.
- Durability: After a transaction is committed, the changes are saved and not lost even in case of failures.
Example in C# using a transaction:
using (var transaction = connection.BeginTransaction())
{
try
{
// Executing multiple database operations
command1.ExecuteNonQuery();
command2.ExecuteNonQuery();
transaction.Commit(); // Committing the transaction
}
catch
{
transaction.Rollback(); // Rolling back in case of error
throw;
}
}