For example, in Informix (by default), Sybase and SQLServer you must explicitly BEGIN a transaction, otherwise each individual statement is a transaction
all by itself. This is because, in these databases, locks are a precious resource and readers block writers, and writers block readers. In an attempt to increase concurrency, they would like you to make the transaction as short as possible ‐ sometimes at the expense of data integrity. Oracle takes the opposite approach. Transactions are always implicit and there is no way to have an ?autocommit? unless an application implements it. Here, transactions should be as large as they need to be.
all by itself. This is because, in these databases, locks are a precious resource and readers block writers, and writers block readers. In an attempt to increase concurrency, they would like you to make the transaction as short as possible ‐ sometimes at the expense of data integrity. Oracle takes the opposite approach. Transactions are always implicit and there is no way to have an ?autocommit? unless an application implements it. Here, transactions should be as large as they need to be.