This is SQL Server question but I would appreciate the answers form other DBMS contexts properly identified.
The answer by Seth Lynch to my question in MSDN forum:
tells:
"When data is updated it is not over written - the original row is marked as deleted and a new row is inserted"
Is it correct statement? Can you give references supporting this in docs?
How can it be verified?
Related discussions:
Update: Not long time ago I believed that dirty reads permitted in READ UNCOMMITTED transaction isolation level (or, what is the same in SQL Server, through WITH(NOLOCK) hint) permitted reading (from other transactions) uncommitted (or committed, if not yet changed) values but not partly-changed (partly updated, partly deleted or partly inserted.
RESUME': putting it short, that phrase is generally and for most cases incorrect (while it states categorically about rather uncommon cases in SQL Server)