Re: rollback after 0 rows affected

The default Oracle DB behavior is for a transaction to be committed when the session exits.

This may be overridden in an application ( such as SQLPLUS ) so that the default behavior is a rollback.

I would explicitly commit or rollback were I writing an app.

Jared

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Frederik Lindberg wrote:

> I'm using transactions, with a delete followed by an insert.
>
> If the delete affects 0 rows, there is nothing to do.
>
> Do I need to rollback the transaction to abandon it, or is everything
> the way it should after a delete that affected 0 rows?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> -- Sincerely, Fred
> Frederik Lindberg, CTO, CheetahMail

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