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To support concurrent transactions, a DBMS should have which of the following properties?Select one:a.atomicity, durability, and isolationb.atomicity, irreducibility, and isolationc.durability, irreducibility, and isolationd.atomicity, durability, and irreducibility

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To support concurrent transactions, a DBMS should have which of the following properties?Select one:a.atomicity, durability, and isolationb.atomicity, irreducibility, and isolationc.durability, irreducibility, and isolationd.atomicity, durability, and irreducibility

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The correct answer is a. atomicity, durability, and isolation. These are three of the four properties of transactions, known as ACID properties, that a DBMS should have to support concurrent transactions.

  1. Atomicity: This property ensures that a transaction is treated as a single, indivisible logical unit of work, in which either all of its data modifications are performed or none of them are.

  2. Durability: This property ensures that once a transaction has been committed, it will remain so, even in the event of subsequent failures such as power loss, crash, or errors.

  3. Isolation: This property ensures that the concurrent execution of transactions results in a system state that would be obtained if transactions were executed serially, i.e., one after the other.

The fourth ACID property not mentioned in the options is Consistency, which ensures that a transaction brings the database from one valid state to another.

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