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Then at time t4, transaction T Y reads account A that will be read as $350.

At time t3, transaction T X writes the updated value in account A, i.e., $350.

At time t2, transaction T X adds $50 to account A that becomes $350.

At time t1, transaction T X reads the value of account A, i.e., $300.

There comes the Read-Write Conflict between both transactions.Ĭonsider two transactions T X and T Y in the below diagram performing read/write operations on account A where the available balance in account A is $300: The dirty read problem occurs when one transaction updates an item of the database, and somehow the transaction fails, and before the data gets rollback, the updated database item is accessed by another transaction. Hence data becomes incorrect, and database sets to inconsistent. It means the value written by T X is lost, i.e., $250 is lost.

Similarly, at time t7, transaction T Y writes the values of account A, so it will write as done at time t4 that will be $400.

At time t6, transaction T X writes the value of account A that will be updated as $250 only, as T Y didn't update the value yet.

At time t4, transaction T Y adds $100 to account A that becomes $400 (only added but not updated/write).

Alternately, at time t3, transaction T Y reads the value of account A that will be $300 only because T X didn't update the value yet.

At time t2, transaction T X deducts $50 from account A that becomes $250 (only deducted and not updated/write).

At time t1, transaction T X reads the value of account A, i.e., $300 (only read).

The problem occurs when two different database transactions perform the read/write operations on the same database items in an interleaved manner (i.e., concurrent execution) that makes the values of the items incorrect hence making the database inconsistent.Ĭonsider the below diagram where two transactions T X and T Y, are performed on the same account A where the balance of account A is $300. So, the following problems occur with the Concurrent Execution of the operations: Problem 1: Lost Update Problems (W - W Conflict)

So, there is a need to manage these two operations in the concurrent execution of the transactions as if these operations are not performed in an interleaved manner, and the data may become inconsistent. In a database transaction, the two main operations are READ and WRITE operations. Thus, on making the concurrent execution of the transaction operations, there occur several challenging problems that need to be solved. The thing is that the simultaneous execution that is performed should be done in an interleaved manner, and no operation should affect the other executing operations, thus maintaining the consistency of the database.While working on the database transactions, there occurs the requirement of using the database by multiple users for performing different operations, and in that case, concurrent execution of the database is performed.It means that the same database is executed simultaneously on a multi-user system by different users. In a multi-user system, multiple users can access and use the same database at one time, which is known as the concurrent execution of the database.Concurrency Control is the management procedure that is required for controlling concurrent execution of the operations that take place on a database.īut before knowing about concurrency control, we should know about concurrent execution.