<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="sql-extension" page="execute" subpage=""/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: sql:execute</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: sql:execute"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>sql:execute</h1> <p>The <code>sql:execute</code> instruction allows arbitrary SQL statements to be executed. There are two attributes (and no content). The <code>connection</code> attribute is an XPath expression whose value is the SQL connection created using <code>sql:connection</code>. The <code>statement</code> attribute is an attribute value template whose effective value is the SQL statement to be executed. No result is returned.</p> <p>The statements <code>COMMIT WORK</code> and <code>ROLLBACK WORK</code> (spelt exactly like that) are recognized specially, and cause calls on the JDBC <code>connection.commit()</code> and <code>connection.rollback()</code> methods respectively.</p> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="example.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>