There are a few keywords in MySQL to ensure your SQL queries are in a transaction. To start a transaction in MySQL, use the START TRANSACTION or BEGIN keywords. To commit the transaction, you can use the COMMIT keyword. To rollback a transaction, use the ROLLBACK keyword.
To see a transaction in action, you can execute a query that we used earlier on in this chapter, but this time in a transaction:
USE lahmansbaseballdb;START TRANSACTION;UPDATE managerscopy SET lgID = '--';
The previous query updates the managerscopy table and sets all the lgID values to '--', but this time, it's within a transaction, which means if you didn't like the results of the update, you can roll it back. If you are ...
