RE: How to prevent oracle from committing a transaction?

No Oracle doesn't do commits for checkpoint, log switch or shutdown normal. It will only commit data explicitliy (using the commit command) or implicitly (DDL). SQL*PLUS by default auto commits for you if you just exit after doing some DML. But you can turn that off.

Richard Ji

>>> Mike.J.Kurth_at_aexp.com 06/05/01 11:47AM >>>

Wait a minute here.

Why would oracle do a commit on your transaction just because it needs to do a checkpoint, logfile switch, or shutdown?

What if errors occur during validation?

Do you think Oracle will commit the data anyways?

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