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LAB 3 Manual: Instructor: Saad Hameed Subject: Database Administration & Management Lab Class: BS-IT (4-A)

The document discusses database transactions and concurrency issues. It defines transactions as operations that insert, update, or delete records. Concurrency problems like dirty reads can occur if multiple users access the same data simultaneously. The document then describes isolation levels from Read Uncommitted to Serializable that can be set to control how transactions isolate resources and prevent issues like dirty reads. Examples are provided of transactions demonstrating concurrency problems and how isolation levels can resolve them.

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LAB 3 Manual: Instructor: Saad Hameed Subject: Database Administration & Management Lab Class: BS-IT (4-A)

The document discusses database transactions and concurrency issues. It defines transactions as operations that insert, update, or delete records. Concurrency problems like dirty reads can occur if multiple users access the same data simultaneously. The document then describes isolation levels from Read Uncommitted to Serializable that can be set to control how transactions isolate resources and prevent issues like dirty reads. Examples are provided of transactions demonstrating concurrency problems and how isolation levels can resolve them.

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Instructor: Saad Hameed

Subject: Database Administration & Management Lab


Class: BS-IT(4-A)

LAB 3 Manual
Overview
 Transaction
 Concurrency Problems
 Dirty reads
 Lost updates
 Repeatable reads
 Phantom reads
 Isolation Levels
 Read Uncommitted
 Read Committed
 Repeatable Read
 Serializable
 Snapshot

Transaction

if you are creating a record or updating a record or deleting a record from the table, then you are
performing a transaction on that table.

 Update
 Delete
 Insert
 select

It is important to control these transactions to ensure the data integrity and to handle database errors.

For e.g we are updating salary


We are performing there operations in single transaction

Types of Transactions
Explicit Transactions
An explicit transaction is one in which you explicitly define both the start and end of the transaction.
This can be specified by using either SQL statements or database API functions.

SQL Statements
By using Visual Studio, the following SQL statements can be used to define explicit transactions:
 BEGIN TRANSACTION
Marks the starting point of an explicit transaction for a connection.
 COMMIT TRANSACTION
Ends a transaction successfully if no errors are encountered. All data modified by the transaction
becomes a permanent part of the database. Resources held by the transaction are freed.
 ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
Erases a transaction in which errors are encountered. All data modified by the transaction is
returned to the state it was in at the start of the transaction. Resources held by the transaction are
freed.

Autocommit Transactions
Autocommit mode is the default transaction management mode of SQL Server Compact. Every SQL
statement is committed or rolled back when it finishes. A SQL Server Compact connection operates in
autocommit mode whenever this default mode has not been overridden by explicit transactions.
Autocommit mode is also the default mode for ADO.NET and OLE DB.
A SQL Server Compact connection operates in autocommit mode until a BEGIN
TRANSACTION statement starts an explicit transaction. When the explicit transaction is committed or
rolled back, SQL Server Compact returns to autocommit mode.

Example

select * from ORDERS


begin transaction
delete from ORDERS where ORDER_ID=1
select * from ORDERS
rollback

Example

Try Catch

Task#1
TRANSFER BALANCE FROM ONE CUSTOMER ACCOUNT INTO ANOTHER CUSTOMER ACCOUNT IF TRANSACTION
FAILED DUE TO SOME input ERROR(ERROR COULD BE ANY),TRANSACTION SHOULD ROLL BACK AND IF
TRANSFER IS SUCCESSFUL TRRANSACTION SHOULD GET COMMIT, hint: Use try catch

Example

--Transaction 1
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
BEGIN TRAN
WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:10'
insert into Accounts(Name,Balance,DateChanged)
values('NewEmployee',(select Balance from Accounts where Acc_Id=1),'12-2-2014')

select * from Accounts


delete from Accounts where Acc_Id=8
commit
--Transaction 2
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
BEGIN TRAN
update Accounts set Balance=0 where Acc_Id=1
rollback
select * from Accounts
END CATCH
select * from Accounts

Concurrency

Concurrency is the ability of multiple users to access data at the same time.

Concurrency Problems

If you do not manage the modification and reading of data by multiple users, concurrency problems can
occur. For example, if several users access a database at the same time, their transactions could try to
perform operations on the same data at the same time. Some of the concurrency problems that occur
while using SQL Server include the following:

Dirty reads:- This situation happens when a transaction tries to read a data by some other
concurrent transaction which is not committed yet. There is a risk, that this other transaction
may never be committed, leaving the original transaction with wrong data.
example

Example
--Transaction 1—session-1
Begin Tran
Update tblInventory set ItemsInStock = 9 where Id=1
-- Billing the customer
Waitfor Delay '00:00:15'
-- Insufficient Funds. Rollback transaction
Rollback Transaction
--Transaction 2-session 2
Set Transaction Isolation Level Read Uncommitted
Select * from tblInventory where Id=1
Or
Select * from tblInventory (NOLOck)
where Id=1

Task#2
1. Show and implement dirty data example (Use any other example)
2. Apply appropriate isolation level to prevent the dirty

Isolation levels

Isolation level is required to isolate a resource and protect it from other transactions. This is achieved with
the help of locks but what locks are needed and how they can be established is decided on the isolation
level set on the database level. If low level of Isolation is set, it allows multiple users to access the
resources concurrently but it may result in many concurrency related problems like phantom reads, dirty
reads etc. If higher levels of Isolation is set then it eliminate the concurrency related problem but it results
in less number of concurrent access and it may result in data blocking
There are the five Isolation levels (from lower level to higher level) defined in the SQL Server.
Read Uncommitted

 Read Committed
 Repeatable Read
 Serializable
 Snapshot

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