# write-ahead logging

> technique for providing atomicity and durability in database systems, for crash and transaction recovery, by recording changes in a log written to stable storage before writing changes to the database

**Wikidata**: [Q627688](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q627688)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead_logging)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/write-ahead-logging


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013