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Transactions, ACID and Integrity
M.R. Sterling
Database Advanced · Sheet 09

Transactions, ACID and IntegritySQLite

A transaction from BEGIN to COMMIT or ROLLBACK, then each ACID promise shown in SQLite: a two-step change that fails halfway and is rolled back, constraints refusing bad data with SQLite's own errors, and the four SQL languages.

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One transaction, two ways to end
ACID
Atomicity
Consistency
The five guard rails
COMMIT
Isolation and durability
The four SQL languages
Data you can trust
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