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    • Active State – When the instructions of the transaction are running then the transaction is in active state. If all the ‘read and write’ operations are performed without any error then it goes to the “partially committed state”; if any instruction fails, it goes to the “failed state”.
    • Partially Committed – After completion of all the read and write operation the changes are made in main memory or local buffer. If the changes are made permanent on the DataBase then the state will change to “committed state” and in case of failure it will go to the “failed state”.
    • Failed State – When any instruction of the transaction fails, it goes to the “failed state” or if failure occurs in making a permanent change of data on Data Base.
    • Aborted State – After having any type of failure the transaction goes from “failed state” to “aborted state” and since in previous states, the changes are only made to local buffer or main memory and hence these changes are deleted or rolled-back.
    • Active state. The active state is the first state of every transaction. In this state, the transaction is being executed. For example: Insertion or deletion or updating a record is done here.
    • Partially committed. In the partially committed state, a transaction executes its final operation, but the data is still not saved to the database. In the total mark calculation example, a final display of the total marks step is executed in this state.
    • Committed. A transaction is said to be in a committed state if it executes all its operations successfully. In this state, all the effects are now permanently saved on the database system.
    • Failed state. If any of the checks made by the database recovery system fails, then the transaction is said to be in the failed state. In the example of total mark calculation, if the database is not able to fire a query to fetch the marks, then the transaction will fail to execute.
  1. State Diagram of a Transaction. The following are the states of the above ‘State Transition Diagram’ : ACTIVE: The initial state; the state remains constant while the transaction executes. PARTIALLY COMMITTED: After the final statement has been executed.

    • Active State
    • Failed State
    • Partially Committed State
    • Committed State
    • Aborted State

    As we have discussed in the DBMS transaction introductionthat a transaction is a sequence of operations. If a transaction is in execution then it is said to be in active state. It doesn’t matter which step is in execution, until unless the transaction is executing, it remains in active state.

    If a transaction is executing and a failure occurs, either a hardware failure or a software failure then the transaction goes into failed state from the active state.

    As we can see in the above diagram that a transaction goes into “partially committed” state from the active state when there are read and write operations present in the transaction. A transaction contains number of read and write operations. Once the whole transaction is successfully executed, the transaction goes into partially committed state wh...

    If a transaction completes the execution successfully then all the changes made in the local memory during partially committedstate are permanently stored in the database. You can also see in the above diagram that a transaction goes from partially committed state to committed state when everything is successful.

    As we have seen above, if a transaction fails during execution then the transaction goes into a failed state. The changes made into the local memory (or buffer) are rolled back to the previous consistent state and the transaction goes into aborted state from the failed state. Refer the diagram to see the interaction between failed and aborted state...

  2. Transaction states in DBMS are the states through which a transaction goes throughout its lifetime. Transaction states are- Active state, Partially committed state, Committed state, Failed state, Aborted state, Terminated state.

  3. May 8, 2023 · This article on Scaler Topics covers the state of transactions in dbms in DBMS with examples, explanations, and use cases, read to know more.

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  5. Apr 4, 2016 · State Transition Diagram of states of transaction execution. During its execution a transaction must be in any one of the following states; Active state – Initial state. Any transaction will be in this state during its execution.