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Write Skew

Write Skew

Feb 10, 20261 min read

  • relational-databases
  • transactions
  • concurrency-phenomena

Write Skew

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An anomaly where two transactions each read a value, make decisions based on those reads, and write results that violate a constraint that neither transaction individually violated. Only prevented by serializable isolation.

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