Transactions
The user can use a set of SQL statements to control transactions. These statements allow us to explicitly start, commit, or rollback a transaction, but in some cases such operations are implicit. We can also set an isolation level, which determines which locks are acquired and how consistent the reads are. We can also declare in advance that a transaction is read only; this allows InnoDB to execute more internal optimizations.
The transactions life cycle
Usually, MariaDB transactions start with the START TRANSACTION
statement and end with COMMIT
or ROLLBACK
. BEGIN WORK
is a synonym for START TRANSACTION
, but it does not work within stored programs, because the BEGIN
and END
keywords are used to enclose code blocks. The general syntax ...
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