I was already expanding my SQl horizons asking this question. What would be a reasonable action?
On 7/6/05, Jay Sprenkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/6/05, Kiel W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >set tran_string "BEGIN TRANSACTION\n" > > >foreach ... > > >append tran_string "<my-insert-statement>\n" > > >append tran_string "END TRANSACTION\nCOMMIT TRANSACTION" > > >DB eval "$tran_string" > > Ray, > > Someone may pipe in to correct me, but this is my understanding.. > > BEGIN TRANSATION, END TRANSACTION and COMMIT TRANSACTION could be > > considered three seperate sql statements. Meaning, you /could/ send them > as > > three seperate execute( ) 's. However, it would be /much/ better to send > > larger chunks of sql code to an execute, seperating them by semi-colens > ( ; > > ). > > I'm not familiar with Tcl/Tk but I /think/ your code would be fine as > long > > as you end each statement (including what I mentioned above). I could be > > entirely off base, but its something to try until someone else gives > some > > input. > > They are separate sql statements, but being careful I would check to make > sure they actually did work when executing them. You can do something > reasonable if they fail instead of just crashing. > -- Ray Mosley
