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BEGIN WORK Statement
The BEGIN WORK statement enables you to start a transaction explicitly—where the transaction
consists of the set of operations defined by the sequence of SQL statements that begins immediately
after BEGIN WORK and ends with the next COMMIT or ROLLBACK statement. See
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BEGIN WORK is a Neoview SQL extension.
BEGIN WORK
Examples of BEGIN WORK
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Group three separate statements—two INSERT statements and an UPDATE statement—that
update the database within a single transaction:
--- This statement initiates a transaction.
BEGIN WORK;
--- SQL operation complete.
INSERT INTO sales.orders VALUES (125, DATE '1998-03-23',
DATE '1998-03-30', 75, 7654);
--- 1 row(s) inserted.
INSERT INTO sales.odetail VALUES (125, 4102, 25000, 2);
--- 1 row(s) inserted.
UPDATE invent.partloc SET qty_on_hand = qty_on_hand - 2
WHERE partnum = 4102 AND loc_code = 'G45';
--- 1 row(s) updated.
--- This statement ends a transaction.
COMMIT WORK;
--- SQL operation complete.
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