intermediateWhat Is a Transaction?
Why isn't "just do the operations one after another in application code" sufficient?
Without a transaction boundary, a crash or concurrent access between steps can leave the system in a partially-updated, inconsistent state that no single step's own error handling can detect or fix.
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