When should I use transactions in my queries?

Question

I\'m reading very detailed tutorials on how to use transactions with database types and database engines, but I haven\'t found a guide that teaches me when and why I should

Answer 1

Basically any time you have a unit of work that is either sensitive to outside changes or needs the ability to rollback every change, if an error occurs or some other reason.

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