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REQUIRED vs REQUIRES_NEW. Give a practical use case for REQUIRES_NEW.
Tests whether you know REQUIRED joins an existing transaction if one is active (or starts one), while REQUIRES_NEW always suspends the current transaction and starts a fresh one -- useful for audit logging that must persist even if the outer business transaction later rolls back.
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