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Can you name different levels of transaction isolation in database management systems?
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Answer from AI
Main transaction isolation levels in DBMS:
- Read Uncommitted — a transaction can see changes made by other transactions even if they are not yet committed (possible dirty reads).
- Read Committed — a transaction only sees data that has been committed by other transactions (prevents dirty reads).
- Repeatable Read — guarantees that data read at the beginning of a transaction will not change until it ends (prevents non-repeatable reads).
- Serializable — the strictest level, transactions are executed as if they were executed sequentially, one after another (prevents phantom reads).
Choosing an isolation level affects performance and data integrity.