Questions tagged [isolation-level]
For questions about "isolation levels" - the setting that specifies the applicable guarantees of concurrency and consistency in multi-user database systems.
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What is correct way to ensure that row is not deleted in concurrent transaction
I have 2 tables:
Parent (PK id)
Child (PK id, parent_id)
Note that parent_id is not defined a foreign key (actually they are not parent/child, I use those names just for example).
I need to handle ...
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Repro for missed rows during Allocation Order Scan + Page Splits
In Read Uncommitted, an index scan can execute as an allocation order scan. If a page split occurs during the scan, it is possible that a row will be read twice if it moves to a later position in the ...
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Do I need to set “ConnectionReset” parameter in the connection string when using isolation levels occasionally?
I have a MySql 5.6.44, and an dotnet application using Mysql.Data 8.0.12.
The application code has not specified any isolation level till now because the default one was enough. Suddenly we need to ...
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What standard SQL isolation levels do the SQLite isolation levels correspond to?
There are four standard SQL isolation levels: Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeated Read, and Serializable. (c.f. Database System Concepts 6ed.)
In SQLite, there are three isolation levels: ...
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Will my SQL query use stale data? How can I prevent it?
I have two tables (SJob & SJobDependent) that I need to join for some logic in a stored procedure. They both have a column (job) that connects them in a one-to-many relationship - one SJob record ...
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Why does START TRANSACTION WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT not work with SERIALIZABLE isolation level?
The MySQL doc for START TRANSACTION says:
The only isolation level that permits a consistent read is REPEATABLE READ. For all other isolation levels, the WITH CONSISTENT SNAPSHOT clause is ignored. ...
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Serializable Transactions vs SELECT FOR UPDATE in MySQL
I have a stock table with columns: id, available, sold, status fields. Before increasing sold field I have to check if sold + x is less and equal than available. To make sure every transaction uses ...
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How the single SQL statement is isolated?
All the books I've seen so far, talking about transactions show scenarios with several SQL statements involved.
But what's about single statements? What level of isolation do they have? Is it ...
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Choosing between RCSI and Snapshot Isolation [closed]
I have researched into this and I understand the general differences between the two isolation levels. I would like to explain our scenario and need help in deciding the correct isolation level to use....
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Read uncommited does not work in UPDATE WHERE NOT EXISTS
I'm not able to force SQL Server (2016) to respect values updated in the same statement.
What I need to do is to update old values (column a in table #t in demo code below) with mapping table (#u) ...
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Is there an alternative to isolation level SERIALIZABLE?
I use MySQL 5.7 and want to run an export task on a products table. The process basically runs like this:
SELECT * FROM products WHERE exported = 0
Loop over the result set in my programm and write ...
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MSSQL - what is the best isolation level for a website
My website is mostly informative,
Users cannot Update or Delete, they can perform Insert but that almost doesn't happen.
Most of the site uses SELECT queries and the information doesn't change often ...
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Does SQL Server's serializable isolation level lock entire table
Me and a colleague of mine discussed the implications of use of the serializable isolation level. He said it locked the entire table, but I disagreed to that telling him it potentially could but it ...
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Change transaction isolation level inside running transaction
I'm studying transaction isolation levels in SQL Server, and I'm trying to figure out how SQL Server behaves when the isolation level changes during the lifetime of the transaction.
It seems that ...
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SQL Server - How to achieve READCOMMITED and NOLOCK at the same time?
If I have a User table:
id | name | age
1 | Mateus | 27
The first transaction executes an update, and leaves the transaction open, without committing or rolling back:
update User set name = 'John'...
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PostgreSQL Serialisation failure on different ids
Serializable isolation mode can be used to avoid race conditions when upserting equal ids. So for create table u(uid int primary key, name text); if we run two similar transactions T1 and T2:
begin ...
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How to avoid MYSQL procedure “transaction characteristics can't be changed while a transaction is in progress” error?
I am trying to call a MySQL procedure which is throwing the error
"transaction characteristics can't be changed while a transaction is
in progress"
I am making the call to this procedure from a ...
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Difference in location of transaction isolation level declaration - inside/ouside a transaction?
I have been looking though some stored procedured on our system today when I saw the following structure:
(pseudocode indicative of actual SP, server is using the default isolation level):
CREATE ...
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Lock Escalation happening while inserting few million records into a table in production
I want to insert few million records into a table in my production database.
I am not updating any existing rows.I am just doing
INSERT INTO TAB1
SELECT
COL1,COL2,COL3
FROM TAB2
This table has an ...
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NOLOCK or Read Uncommitted locking / latching behaviours
I've read many, many different takes on how NOLOCK or the read uncommitted isolation levels function in terms of locks / latches taken.
When using a SELECT with NOLOCK or in the Read Uncommitted ...
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Deadlock / Isolation Level
I was analyzing a deadlock that I received when I noticed that one of the processes involved in the deadlock had the isolation level set to Read Uncommitted.
I search the web... and searched in my ...
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Isolation level serializable not working as expected?
I have this table
create table testing(
c1 text,
c2 text);
I open two transactions simultaneously. t0 t1.. denote series of time snapshots in increasing order
Transaction 1
BEGIN; -- t0
SET ...
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System failure causes inconsistency between two transactions
Let's say the picture above the transaction 4 for user A.
A updated a record from Account table, change the balance from 100 to 0, then a checkpoint occurred, so all dirty pages got written to disk.
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WAL buffer checkpoint/flush time during serialization isolation
I have a doubt regarding the flush/checkpoint time of WAL buffers during serialization isolation in Postgres. Is it possible to lose acknowledged writes even if transaction runs in serialization ...
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Gap Locking in Read Committed isolation level in Mysql
MYSQL VERSION : 5.7.X
STORAGE ENGINE : Innodb
I have a general idea that Read Committed Isolation will mostly use Shared and Exclusive Record Locks. But, as per mysql docs, there are some cases where ...
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Difference between isolation levels in locktable implementation
I'm trying to implement lock tables in database with c++ and mysql. i'm using tpc-a benchmarks where i simulate a mini bank database and i run a bunch of threads on it and each thread do 10 ...
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InnoDB undo logs vs history list
I was reading about InnoDB undo logs, and in the process, the articles i was reading ended up confusing me on what undo logs are, and how they are different from the history list, or rather the same.
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Understanding non repeatable read anomaly in databases
This paper discusses in detail ANSI isolation levels discussed in ANSI SQL standard on page 84.
Paper introduces following shorthand for describing histories which contain reads, writes, commits and ...
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Does using a read committed isolation level and a NOLOCK query hint impact performance?
Can having both the SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED and WITH (NOLOCK) on all tables in SP cause conflicts and downgrade performance on the SP? I just noticed some changes that a dev ...
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Understanding repeatable read isolation level
Wikipedia defines following terms:
With a lock-based concurrency control DBMS implementation, serializability isolation level requires read and write locks (acquired on selected data) to be ...
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What does postgresql do when two transactions with different isolation levels run simultaneously?
According to this, postgresql supports different isolation levels per connection and even different ones in the same connection. Let's say one connection is using serializable and another is using ...
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Aws RDS cpu Spike to 100% because of running set isolation command and set
My application running with the AWS RDS as a backend.
currently i am doing a performance test.
While doing that i am seeing RDS cpu usage goes 100% after 20min.
While seeing the performance insights ...
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Is it possible to override a ReadCommittedSnapshot isolation level with ReadCommitted isolation level for a particular transaction?
The default isolation level of my database is "read committed snapshot". Please see the below screenshot.
I have the table "Tickets' with the following data in my database.
Now in connection 1, I ...
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How to Set the Transaction Isolation level in a Table Value Multi Function
How do I set the transaction isolation level within in a table value multi function? I know it can be done in a stored procedure.
create function dbo.Test()
RETURNS @TestTable Table (test varchar(...
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Serializable range deadlocks
Help required on an inherited deadlock problem!
The code given below appears to have been written some time back, in an attempt to address contention issues around the assigning of new ID values on ...
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Locks and dirty writes for SQL dbs
Lets say I have two transactions, t1 and t2, that write to the same two rows, r1 and r2. I understand a kind of “dirty write” would be if t1 overwrites t2 on r1 last while t2 overwrites t1 on r2.
Is ...
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RCSI and index maintenance
I have a database that is RCSI enabled and I've been rebuilding my indexes online (SQL 2014 Enterprise) for as long as I can remember. My understanding is that if we were to rebuild the indexes ...
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SQL Server Version Store Performance differences between RCS and ASI
I understand that Read Committed Snapshot (RCS) operates at statement level, and Allow Snapshot Isolation (ASI) operates at transaction level, and both store row versions in tempdb. I also understand ...
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Read Committed Snapshot, stale data reads?
I'm running SQL Azure and I have a following case.
I have two transactions W (writer) and R (reader). Both are running with RCSI (.net application with TransactionScopes using LTM). The R transaction ...
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Setting isolation level at database level
We have a data warehouse that's being dropped and reproduced every night. We have lots of SSRS reports that use the warehouse. Sometimes an SSRS report goes wrong and will never execute, thus ...
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Isolation level issue
I need some help in choosing the correct isolation level on my transactions.
My situation is as follows. I have a table with a unique constraint over two columns. For the sake of the argument, lets ...
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Missing rows (gaps) on range read from the end of the table
On a data processing pipeline, getting gaps in returned data.
Process A - inserts sequentially into a table. Table has an auto-increment primary key id.
Process B - selects max(id) [into X] and then ...
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Are duplicates in Read Commited standard behaviour?
This refers to this question: Duplicate records returned from table with no duplicates
The "read commited" isolation level assumes that one transaction could read same record differently, but it does ...
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Is snapshot isolation good?
My situation:
Table: User { Id, Name, Stone, Gold, Wood }
I have "write" threads:
miningThread (every minute)
UPDATE User SET Stone = @calculatedValue WHERE Id=@id
UPDATE User SET Wood = @...
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Can sub-selects change in one single query in a read committed transaction?
I am querying the same table multiple times in a single query in a transaction with isolation level set to READ COMMITTED (which is the default in PostgreSQL). Examples are:
BEGIN;
WITH
first AS (...
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Does READ COMMITED commited blocks any rows?
I know that there are four diffrent types of isolation levels in databases. I've read many articles about that but still, I don't get the idea of Read Commited level. Does this level lock the rows ...
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the role of “ Intent lock ” in transaction and concurrency
According to the book Microsoft Sql server 2012, Chapter 13 (Transactions and concurrency):
If an exclusive page lock is held in one page of a table, another
process can not get even a shared ...
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Best situation to use READ UNCOMMITTED isolation level
As we all know, READ UNCOMMITTED is the lowest isolation level in which things like dirty reads and phantom reads may accrue. When is the best time to use this isolation level and for what reasons ...
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Setting READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT to ON while ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION is OFF
I experimented with various configurations of SQL Server databases and ended up setting READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT to ON while ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION is OFF.
I noticed that when enabling this, many ...
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Finding the default isolation level in SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL DB
I'm reading a book related to transaction and concurrency. In one paragraph it is mentioned that:
In on-premises SQL Server instance the default isolation level is Read-Committed based on locking
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