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SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide
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SQL: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Chris Fehily
July 2002
Beginner
424 pages
9h 30m
English
Peachpit Press
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Executing a Transaction

To learn how transactions work, you need to acquire a small vocabulary:

  • Commit. Committing a transaction makes all data modifications performed since the start of the transaction a permanent part of the database. After a transaction is committed, all changes made by the transaction become visible to other users and are guaranteed to be permanent if a crash or other failure occurs.

  • Roll back. Rolling back a transaction retracts any of the changes resulting from the SQL statements in the transaction. After a transaction is rolled back, the affected data is left unchanged, as though the SQL statements in the transaction were never executed.

  • Transaction log. The transaction log file, or just log, is a serial record of all modifications ...

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