Thread: BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION

Hi all,
why START TRANSACTION READ ONLY is allowed
and not BEGIN READ ONLY ?







Regards
Gaetano Mendola

Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> why START TRANSACTION READ ONLY is allowed
> and not BEGIN READ ONLY ?

I think because START TRANSACTION is SQL standard?   However, I thought
BEGIN WORK was SQL standard, and we don't support READ ONLY there
either --- hmmm.

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> I think because START TRANSACTION is SQL standard?   However, I thought
> BEGIN WORK was SQL standard, and we don't support READ ONLY there
> either --- hmmm.

BEGIN is no part of the SQL standard.  The only way to begin a 
transaction under the SQL standard is START TRANSACTION.

Chris

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 19:22, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> why START TRANSACTION READ ONLY is allowed
> and not BEGIN READ ONLY ?

As Chris KL points out, it's not required by the standard (since BEGIN
isn't part of the standard to begin with). I suppose we could add it,
but it seems a little pointless -- "BEGIN ; SET ..." seems just as good.

-Neil

Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:>> I think because START TRANSACTION is SQL standard?   However, I thought>> BEGIN WORK
wasSQL standard, and we don't support READ ONLY there>> either --- hmmm.>>> BEGIN is no part of the SQL standard.  The
onlyway to begin a> transaction under the SQL standard is START TRANSACTION.
 

These IMHO means push people to not use BEGIN anymore.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola