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COMMIT and Non-Transactional Tables

database, silent failure transactions

At the July MySQL User Group Meeting, Jim Starkey wondered aloud, “What happens when I COMMIT on a memory table?” I wrote the question down, to research it later.

The obvious answer is “COMMIT on a non-transactional table does nothing.”

Tonight I was thinking about this, and I realized I do not actually COMMIT “on a table.”

The manual page at: …

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