Lexicon

Dirty Reads/Writes

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Atomic Boundary

Record: lexicon:dirty-reads-writes

Canonical: Lexicon

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

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Reliable State and before Safe Concurrent Operations.

Category

  • Transactions / State / Concurrency

Negated by

  • Isolation

Violates

  • Isolation

Linked from

  • Transactions / State / Concurrency