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Brendan W
Brendan W

Reputation: 3453

What it database atomicity?

I'm trying to use django's atomic database API and I realize that I don't actually know what 'atomic' actually means [in this context].

From the docs:

Atomicity is the defining property of database transactions. atomic allows us to create a block of code within which the atomicity on the database is guaranteed

What is database atomicity?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

Justin Niessner
Justin Niessner

Reputation: 245389

Atomicity is the concept that, within a transaction, either all of the operations succeed or all of the operations fail. This will prevent the database from being in a possibly corrupted state of partially applied updates to data.

If you want the long and detailed explanation, you can head over to Wikipedia and read the article:

Atomicity (database systems) - Wikipedia

Upvotes: 1

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