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Data & Analytics · Foundational

Atomicity

The ACID property that a transaction completes entirely or not at all.

Definition

If any part of a transaction fails, all of its changes are rolled back. Databases implement atomicity with undo and transaction logs.

Example

A failed credit step rolls back the earlier debit step.

Exam tip

'All-or-nothing' in a question stem means atomicity.

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