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Re: [HACKERS] END/ABORT

Jose Soares <jose@sferacarta.com> — 2000-02-01T13:19:05Z

Don Baccus wrote:

> At 09:41 AM 1/31/00 +0100, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> >    Of  course,  removing  END/ABORT will touch many applications
> >    using transactions, but I would vote  for  it  anyway,  since
> >    it's standard.
>
> Does it make all that much sense to worry about the actual word
> used when the need to use "begin" is non-standard to begin with?

   There is no explicit "BEGIN WORK" on SQL92, transaction initiation
   is always implicit and it terminates either with a COMMIT or a
ROLLBACK
   statement.

>
>
> Of course, removing that would REALLY impact current applications...
>
> - Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
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Jose' Soares
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