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>COMMIT</H1
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>Name</H2
>COMMIT -- commit the current transaction</DIV
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>COMMIT [ WORK | TRANSACTION ]</PRE
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> <TT
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>COMMIT</TT
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changes made by the transaction become visible to others
and are guaranteed to be durable if a crash occurs.
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><TT
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>WORK</TT
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> Optional key words. They have no effect.
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> Use <A
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abort a transaction.
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> Issuing <TT
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>COMMIT</TT
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no harm, but it will provoke a warning message.
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> To commit the current transaction and make all changes permanent:
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>COMMIT;</PRE
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> The SQL standard only specifies the two forms
<TT
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WORK</TT
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>BEGIN</A
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>ROLLBACK</A
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