[Gllug] perl querying SQL server 7

[Bruce Richardson]

On 8/21/01, 2:42:24 PM, Dean <dean.wilson3 at virgin.net> wrote regarding Re: 
[Gllug] perl querying SQL server 7:


> > The ODBC standard includes transaction support in the abstraction layer,
> > which is a bonus, though it can't provide a whole transaction interface
> > for databases that don't have the feature.

> If the database doesn't support transactions does it bomb or just commit?

Depends on how well you write your application.  The ODBC driver 
announces what features it supports and that featureset is handed on to 
the application.  So it's up to the application (in this context the Perl 
or PHP library) to return an error.

-- 

Bruce

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