What is, technically, a non-repeatable read?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=59026 Created: May 29, 2000 Modified: 2000-05-29 00:11:45.433 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 reads a row, then another transaction updates or deletes the row and commits, the first transaction, on re-read, gets modified data or no data. This is an inconsistency problem within a transaction and addressed by isolation levels.