SQL Tutorial – 08 – Transaction

The transaction controls lets you execute a group of update statements as if they were a single operation, so that if one of them fails all of the previous statements will be undone.

Begin Work

The BEGIN WORK statement marks the start of a database transaction. You can then execute any number data manipulation statements (INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE).

-- Transaction Example
BEGIN WORK;
UPDATE mytable SET acc1 = acc1 - 200 WHERE id = 1;

Commit

These changes won’t be visible to other users until a COMMIT statement is made, which finalizes the transaction. If you execute a data definition statement (CREATE, ALTER, or DROP) that will also end the transaction, as if there were a COMMIT before the statement.

COMMIT;

Rollback

If either of the data manipulation statements fails the whole transaction will be undone. You can also explicitly undo the transaction with the ROLLBACK statement.

ROLLBACK;

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