Andrew McDonough
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Database Theory
ACID Properties
ACID Properties are the key properties of transaction processing within a database. A transaction is usually a collection of one or more statements.
- Atomicity - Transactions either occur (all queries commit) or don’t (rolled back executed queries reversed).
- Consistency - All constraints of the database must be satisfied before and after a transaction.
- Isolation - The transaction should be carried out without any other process being able to see the intermediate state.
- Durability - After a transaction has committed, it’s effects should persist, even in the event of a database failure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
Normalization
Andrew McDonough is a consultant CTO and software developer, currently based between Berlin and London.
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