Transaction

Updated: 07/31/2022 by Computer Hope
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A transaction may refer to any of the following:

1. Transaction is a trade or interaction between two or more people. For example, a transaction can be buying and selling, transferring funds, or performing a service.

2. Transaction is a programming term for a set of instructions that satisfies the conditions of the ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, and durable) property test. For databases, transactions help ensure data integrity. For example, if an update requires all SQL (Structured Query Language) statements to complete and any one of them fails, the entire update can be rolled back.

Database transaction.

Database terms, Programming terms