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Understanding Innodb Transaction Isolation

The MySQL Innodb storage engine provides ACID compliance, the ‘I’ being isolation. There are four states defined in MySQL with the tx_isolation system variable, READ-UNCOMMITTED, READ-COMMITTED, REPEATABLE-READ and SERIALIZABLE.

Generally MySQL installations do not modify the default value of tx_isolation = REPEATABLE-READ, however I have seen with a number of clients the default value has been changed to READ-COMMITTED. When I attempt to identify the reason why, I have always received the same reason. Oracle uses a default transaction isolation of READ-COMMITTED. See how Oracle Manages Data …

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