C H A P T E R 4
Transactions
In this chapter, you'll take a brief look at transactions in the context of JDBC. You'll see how to commit and roll back a transaction in JDBC, and you'll learn what transaction isolation levels are and which ones are supported by Oracle. In addition, I'll explain why it's important to turn off the autocommit feature in JDBC in production code. Finally, you'll examine transaction savepoints, a feature exposed to Java programs in JDBC 3.0.
What Is a Transaction?
A transaction is a set of SQL statements that performs an atomic logical unit of work in the database. Oracle Database Concepts Guide (10g Release 1) states ...
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