> From: Pete Kuczynski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Can anyone tell me for shure if my version of mysql supports
> transactions. Version: 3.23.37
>
> The bitbybit web site states that is does not, but someone told me that
> it does, help!
>
> > MySQL doesn't support transactions. If you don't know what
> > transactions are, chances are you'll never need them.
> > Transactions are most
> > widely used in systems where complex updates of many tables
> > concurrently is important and you must be absolutely sure that all
things
> > either go right or don't happen at all. That's why banking
> > systems are heavily dependent on transactions. The rest of us,
> > however, can
> > usually live without 'em.
Just for the record: If Pete had bothered to read the very next
paragraph of the FAQ, he would have read:
November 2000 update: MySQL has now for some time been supporting
transactions by incorporating the Berkeley DB into MySQL (v. 3.23.6
and upwards). The latest word on this project is that BDB tables are
now considered "very stable". BDB support is officially still considered
to be at an "alpha/beta" state.
- and this is still true, according to my copy of the MySQL manual,
(v. 3.23.39).
/ Carsten
--
Carsten H. Pedersen
keeper and maintainer of the bitbybit.dk MySQL FAQ
http://www.bitbybit.dk/mysqlfaq
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