# Dirty Reads/Writes

> Reading or overwriting another transaction's uncommitted changes, so a rollback leaves corrupt data.

Record: `lex:dirty-reads-writes`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-dirty-reads-writes

## category

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/transactions-state-concurrency.md)

## referenced-by

- [Isolation](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/isolation.md)