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Building Database Applications in Elixir with Ecto

Wrapping Up: Make Multiple Changes with Transactions

Explore how to manage multiple database changes in Elixir using Ecto transactions. Understand when to use Repo.transaction with functions and when to apply Ecto.Multi for greater flexibility and cleaner code. Learn to ensure all related operations succeed or fail together, maintaining data integrity and preparing for advanced database setup with Ecto.Migration.

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What we have learned?

Ecto has excellent support for database transactions via the Repo.transaction function.

  • The last lesson explained how using Ecto.Multi is preferable to using functions. However, cases do exist where calling transaction with a function works well.
  • If we’re only running a small
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