# Large Transaction Scope

> The degree to which widening a transaction to cover more work increases contention and failure surface.

Record: `lexicon:large-transaction-scope`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Atomic Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/atomic-boundary.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-large-transaction-scope

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Hidden Distributed Transaction](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/hidden-distributed-transaction.md) and before [Safe State Mutation](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/safe-state-mutation.md).

## Category

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

## In tension with

- [Transaction Boundary](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/transaction-boundary.md)
- [Transaction Boundary / Large Transaction Scope](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/large-transaction-scope-transaction-boundary.md)

## Linked from

- [Transactions / State / Concurrency](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-transactions-state-concurrency.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)