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


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