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What happens if you are unable to 'commit' the transaction (due to script error or crash, etc) and MM keeps running? or when the whole app crashes? | What happens if you are unable to 'commit' the transaction (due to script error or crash, etc) and MM keeps running? or when the whole app crashes? | ||
: From what I've read on the forum you should use it when you want to do different database queries at once (for better performance). If you have only one query at a time to do, you certainly don't need this. If the transaction isn't committed (e.g. due to MM crash), then the query won't be executed (I think). When the script crashes, the queries will only be committed when another action does the commit. However, in practice there will always first be a normal query, or a BeginTransaction command, which will probably void the command you started in your own script, or even result in an error. Anyone else has more info on this? -- [[User:Steegy|Steegy]] 15:28, 15 April 2008 (EDT) | |||
Revision as of 19:28, 15 April 2008
When/why should this be used, and even more importantly, when should it NOT be used?
What happens if you are unable to 'commit' the transaction (due to script error or crash, etc) and MM keeps running? or when the whole app crashes?
- From what I've read on the forum you should use it when you want to do different database queries at once (for better performance). If you have only one query at a time to do, you certainly don't need this. If the transaction isn't committed (e.g. due to MM crash), then the query won't be executed (I think). When the script crashes, the queries will only be committed when another action does the commit. However, in practice there will always first be a normal query, or a BeginTransaction command, which will probably void the command you started in your own script, or even result in an error. Anyone else has more info on this? -- Steegy 15:28, 15 April 2008 (EDT)
