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Question 5.
Explain ACID in the context of databases.
Solution
ACID means Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability. Atomicity means each transaction
means all or nothing. This is done to ensure the integrity of data incase an operation fails
midway. Consistency means you can include valid data in the database. Isolation means that
even if the operation are executed parallely the final state of the database will bt the same if the
operations were executed serially. Durability means that if an operation is committed once will
remain even in cases of powerloss, crashes or unexpected errors.

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