Andreas Pflug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > >On 21 Aug 2003 at 0:22, Ian Barwick wrote: > > > >>* DDL > >>- Data definition language (table creation statements etc.) in MySQL > >>are not transaction based and cannot be rolled back. > > > > Just wondering, what other databases has transactable DDLs? oracle seems to > > have autonomous transactions which is arthogonal. > > > M$ SQL2000 has (and previous versions had too, I believe)
In Oracle DDL (including truncate!) was special and wasn't in a transaction. I always just assumed that was just the way it had to be. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])