What Is a Transaction?

This section describes what is a transaction, a sequence of executions of DML (Data Manipulation Language) statements to be treated as single unit.

What Is a Transaction? A transaction is a sequence of executions of SQL statements that can be treated as a single unit in which all data changes can be committed or cancelled as a whole.

Most database servers offer two transaction management modes:

Most database server supports the following statements for transaction management:

Last update: 2015.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of SQL

 MySQL Introduction and Installation

 Introduction of MySQL Programs

 Perl Programs and MySQL Servers

 PHP Programs and MySQL Servers

 Java Programs and MySQL Servers

 Datatypes and Data Literals

 Operations and Expressions

 Character Strings and Bit Strings

 Commonly Used Functions

 Table Column Types for Different Types of Values

 Using DDL to Create Tables and Indexes

 Using DML to Insert, Update and Delete Records

 Using SELECT to Query Database

Transaction Management and Isolation Levels

What Is a Transaction?

 Transaction Management in MySQL

 Transaction Isolation Levels

 "Read Uncommitted" Isolation Level

 "Read Committed" Isolation Level

 "Repeatable Read" Isolation Level

 Locks Used in MySQL

 Defining and Calling Stored Procedures

 Variables, Loops and Cursors Used in Stored Procedures

 Outdated Tutorials

 References

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