Blind write

In computing, a blind write, also known as a write-only transaction, occurs when a transaction writes a value without reading it.¹ In particular, if a read r(X) of a resource X does not occur before a write w(X) to that resource in a transaction, then w(X) is blind write.

Blind writes can cause anomalies if multiple different blind write transactions are executed at the same time.²

Any view serializable schedule that is not conflict serializable must contain a blind write.³

References

Agrawal, D.; Krishnaswamy, V. (1991). "Using multiversion data for non-interfering execution of write-only transactions". Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '91. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. pp. 98–107. doi:10.1145/115790.115801. ISBN 0-89791-425-2.
Herman, Nanna Suryana; Anshar, Khairul; Andono, Pulung Nurtantio (2022-04-01). "Blind Write Protocol Throughput". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2224 (1) 012074. Bibcode:2022JPhCS2224a2074H. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2224/1/012074. ISSN 1742-6588.
Silberschatz, Abraham; Korth, Henry; Sudarshan, S (2019-02-19). "Module 17: Transactions" (PDF). Database System Concepts (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-802215-9.

[1] Agrawal, D.; Krishnaswamy, V. (1991). "Using multiversion data for non-interfering execution of write-only transactions". Proceedings of the 1991 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data - SIGMOD '91. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. pp. 98–107. doi:10.1145/115790.115801. ISBN 0-89791-425-2.

[2] Herman, Nanna Suryana; Anshar, Khairul; Andono, Pulung Nurtantio (2022-04-01). "Blind Write Protocol Throughput". Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 2224 (1) 012074. Bibcode:2022JPhCS2224a2074H. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/2224/1/012074. ISSN 1742-6588.

[3] Silberschatz, Abraham; Korth, Henry; Sudarshan, S (2019-02-19). "Module 17: Transactions" (PDF). Database System Concepts (7th ed.). McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-802215-9.

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