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Dirty Read Explained: How Uncommitted Data Corrupts Transactions

TLDR: A dirty read occurs when Transaction B reads data written by Transaction A before A has committed. If A rolls back, B has made decisions on data that — from the database's perspective — never existed. Read Committed isolation (the default in Po...

Apr 11, 2026•31 min read

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