- A family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems. A write-ahead log is an append-only auxiliary disk-resident structure used for crash and transaction recovery. Changes are first recorded in a log, which must be written to stable storage, before the changes are written to the database. ← Wikipedia
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