Atomicity — this basically means the transaction works or doesn’t and is sometimes called the “all or nothing” rule. I always liken it to an Atomic bomb because they either work or fail. A failed transaction would then enter a state of rollback.
Consistency — this means only valid data is written to the database. This means if the constraints, keys….. are violated the data would not be committed.
Isolation — this means that multiple transactions should not impact other transactions which are occurring simultaneously.
Durability — this means when a transaction is successful all the pending changes are applied to the database.
Originally published at https://parvtheitgeek.com on January 8, 2014.
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