Talk:Database transaction

Terminology
The transitive verb "persist" is used but not defined. Wegesrand (talk) 12:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

sql syntax
the syntax "BEGIN WORK" is so riduculously unsupported by db vendors that we should not mention it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.66.134.54 (talk) 13:43, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, most (relational databases) handle transaction start implictly, and the text should probably reflect that. For now, I've changed BEGIN WORK to START TRANSACTION, to at least use the sql standard's statement. TroelsArvin (talk) 00:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

For a cursor or a transaction?
A question about how it looks from a application programmer perspective. E.g. using Python on a PostgreSQL server, using the psycopg driver.

Beginning and ending a transaction, is that something you do on a connection or on a cursor? Or maybe it depends on the driver? Or on the dbms? Can you start a transaction in

213.165.179.229 (talk) 16:14, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

LUW
Why does LUW redirect to this page? I came here expecting to see a definition after I saw someone use it on another talk page, but no reference is made to LUW here... GoBusto (talk) 17:02, 15 January 2015 (UTC)


 * It means "logical unit of work". It should probably be incorporated into this article. Mind  matrix  20:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Semantics of Database Transactions
I would like to see a definition of transaction that can be used to prove integrity properties in specific database applications. This means it must be formal and sufficiently simple to use in theorem provers. The scientific literature contains no usable definition so far. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefjoosten (talk • contribs) 07:05, 23 February 2018 (UTC)


 * Well, if literature doesn't contain such a definition then it would be WP:OR. Wikipedia is not the right place for that. -- intgr [talk] 08:25, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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