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serializable read

See Also: committed read, isolation level, uncommitted read

  1. [ESRI software] The isolation level in a database management system (DBMS) that offers the highest degree of isolation from concurrent transactions. All reads in the transaction only see data committed before the transaction began, and never see concurrent transaction changes committed during transaction execution.