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Database LUW
A database LUW is a non-separable sequence of database operations that ends in a database commit. The database LUW is either executed completely by the database system, or not at all. After a database LUW has been completed successfully, the database returns to a consistent status and a new database LUW is opened. If an error is discovered within a database LUW, all database changes made since the start of the database LUW can be canceled using a database rollback. The database is subsequently restored to the same status as before the start of the database LUW.
Other versions: 7.31 | 7.40 | 7.54
Notes
- A database commit closes all opened
database cursors. In Open SQL, this particularly affects
SELECT loops and the statement
OPEN CURSOR.
- At the end of a database LUW, all the read streams and locators created in it are closed implicitly. A write stream that is still open is only closed as part of a database rollback and causes a runtime error in a database commit.
- Any database commits or database rollbacks that occur within the update cancel the update.