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Issue 5.2

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REALSQLDatabase (SQLite)

Triggers and Views

Issue: 5.2 (January/February 2007)
Author Bio: Paul Lefebvre is President and Chief Software Architect of LogicalVue Software.
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Article Length (in bytes): 4,951
Starting Page Number: 36
Article Number: 5213
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For my last column on REALSQLDatabase/SQLite topics, we'll be covering transactions and a couple administration commands.

Transactions

A transaction is simply a group of database statements that will change the database in some way. You create a transaction when you want all these changes to be applied together or to not be applied at all, such as when there is a failure.

A typical example is a bank transfer. A bank transfer involves adding money to one account while removing it from another account. On the surface, that seems rather simple. This is what two SQL statements might look like to do this:

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