Re: 'Official' definition of ACID compliance?

Russ Brown wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can find the 'official' definition of what it
> meant by ACID compliance?
>
> We're having a discussion about it that we could do with resolving. In
> particular, the key point is what it meant by the 'C' part. I maintain
> that MySQL is not ACID compliant because it will (among other things)
> swallow integers that don't fit into a column silently and just
> truncate it, while our DBA (while agreeing that this is not good
> behaviour) maintains that this is not what the C part means: he says
> that's just about transaction states (succeed or fail etc).
>
> Anyone have a link?
>
> Thanks.
>

Pretty good overview, though not "official":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID

"The ACID concept is described in ISO/IEC 10026-1:1992 Section 4."

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