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Using SQLite
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Using SQLite

by Jay A. Kreibich
August 2010
Intermediate to advanced
526 pages
23h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

SAVEPOINT — Place a save-point marker in the transaction command sequence

Syntax

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Common Usage

SAVEPOINT savepoint_name;

Description

The SAVEPOINT command creates a save-point marker in the transaction log. If there is no active transaction in progress, the save-point will be marked and an implicit BEGIN DEFERRED TRANSACTION will be issued.

Save-points allow subsections of a transaction to be rewound and partially rolled back without losing the entire transaction state. A transaction can have multiple active save-points. Conceptually, these save-points act as if they were on a stack. Save-point names do not need to be unique.

Save-points are useful in multistep processes where each step needs to be attempted and verified before proceeding to the next step. By creating save-points before starting each step, it may be possible to revert just a single step, rather than the whole transaction, when a logical error case is encountered.

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