Computer Science An Overview _J. Glenn Brookshear _11th Edition
To emphasize the delicate nature of DBMS design, we should note that there
are subtle problems lurking within the rollback process. The rolling back of one
transaction might affect database entries that have been used by other transac-
tions. For example, the transaction being rolled back might have updated an
account balance, and another transaction might have already based its activities
on this updated value. This might mean that these additional transactions must
also be rolled back, which might adversely affect still other transactions. The result
is the problem known as cascading rollback.