What is a phantom insert?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=59028 Created: May 29, 2000 Modified: 2000-05-29 00:12:34.473 Author: Joe Sam Shirah (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=42100) One of the ISO-ANSI SQL defined “phenomena” that can occur with concurrent transactions. If one transaction selects a set of rows, then another transaction inserts rows that meet the same criteria, when the first transaction re-executes the query, a different set results. This is an inconsistency problem within a transaction and addressed by isolation levels.