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Old 02-28-2008, 10:26 AM
Peter H. Coffin
 
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Default Re: Do sourced queries automatically commit?

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:13:04 GMT, Ham Pastrami wrote:
>
> "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnevt157.nmn.hellsop@abyss.ninehells.com...
>> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:31:10 -0700, Ham Pastrami wrote:
>> > Greetings all, I am trying to track down the cause of some issues I'm
>> > having. I am doing this from the mysql prompt:
>> >
>> > start transaction;
>> > source c:/queries.sql;
>> > rollback;
>> >
>> > When I examine the db though, it appears that the changes from the

> sourced
>> > queries have been committed.

>>
>> What type/engine are the affected tables?

>
> MyISAM.


Easy answer then: MyISAM doesn't support transactions, nor rollback. You
want InnoDB instead. Change all the tables and try it again.

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