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START TRANSACTION(7)             SQL Commands             START TRANSACTION(7)



NAME
       START TRANSACTION - start a transaction block


SYNOPSIS
       START TRANSACTION [ ISOLATION LEVEL { READ COMMITTED | SERIALIZABLE } ] [ READ WRITE | READ ONLY ]


DESCRIPTION
       This  command  begins  a  new  transaction.  If  the isolation level or
       read(2,n,1 builtins)/write(1,2) mode is specified, the new transaction has those  character-
       istics, as if(3,n) SET TRANSACTION [set_transaction(7)] was executed. In all
       other respects, the behavior of this command is identical to the  BEGIN
       [begin(7)] command.

PARAMETERS
       See under SET TRANSACTION [set_transaction(7)] about the meaning of the
       parameters.

COMPATIBILITY
       This command conforms to the SQL standard; but see also the compatibil-
       ity section of SET TRANSACTION [set_transaction(7)].

SEE ALSO
       BEGIN  [begin(7)],  COMMIT  [commit(l)],  ROLLBACK  [rollback(l)],  SET
       TRANSACTION [set_transaction(l)]




SQL - Language Statements         2003-11-02              START TRANSACTION(7)