Unit of Work is a design pattern to define business transactions.

A Unit of Work is a list of ordered operations that we want to run on

a database together. Either all of these go together or none of these

goes.

Most of the time, we use term business transaction in place of Unit

of Work.

Egg. In case of money transfer from account A to B, the unit of work

can be two operation Debit account A and Credit account B in a

sequence. Both these operations should happen together and in right

sequence

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