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Comment by fuzztester

Same for database transaction roll back and roll forward actions.

And most enterprises, including banks, use databases.

So by bad luck, you may get a couple of transactions reversed in order of time, such as a $20 debit incorrectly happening before a $10 credit, when your bank balance was only $10 prior to both those transactions. So your balance temporarily goes negative.

Now imagine if all those amounts were ten thousand times higher ...

parent fuzztester 10 months ago

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