2
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2answers
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How to rollback the identity seed after deadlock

Now that's an approximate sequence of operations Im performing: SET IDENTITY_INSERT <table-name> ON; INSERT SOMETHING to <table-name> with explicitly specifyed id DECLARE @oldID bigint ...
1
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1answer
42 views

Does a transaction cover the subroutines?

When I begin transaction and exec a stored procedure, does that transaction cover the changes made by the stored procedure I executed? Would a rollback transaction cancel the changes made by the ...
3
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1answer
366 views

Deleting MySQL table with pending transactions

Is there a way to delete an InnoDB table or database with pending transactions in MySQL (preferably on file system level)? What happened: I use MySQL 5.5.28 and ran LOAD DATA INFILE… to import a ...
2
votes
1answer
278 views

Rollback generate scripts

During the development of applications users often want to add new modules, business rules etc. So I've often used SQL Server 2008 option to create scripts from the development DB to generate new ...
4
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3answers
227 views

Can I change table structure in a transaction and then roll it back if there is an error?

I have some ALTER TABLE statements that I am running. Not all of them work (they are the result of running SQL Data Compare) and I want to group them in some transactions and roll back the statements ...
2
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1answer
394 views

Save Transaction: Is the name local to the stored procedure or not?

Some foot shooting just occured on a production server. I fixed the problem, but I'm now rather confused. There is a subset of stored procedures that preserve state on failure. That is, if the ...
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4answers
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Is ROLLBACK a fast operation?

Is it true that RDBMS systems are optimized for COMMIT operations? How much slower/faster are ROLLBACK operations and why?