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From: Michael Peppler <mpeppler at peppler dot org>
Subject: RE: Can transactions span databases?
Date: Nov 8 2001 11:10PM
Scott Zetlan writes:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-SYBPERL-L@list.cren.net
> > [mailto:owner-SYBPERL-L@list.cren.net]On Behalf Of Michael Peppler
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:08 PM
> > To: SybPerl Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: Can transactions span databases?
> >
> >
> > > 1) Is the scope of an explicit transaction the data server or
> > the database?
> >
> > The data server (i.e. the *connection*).
> >
>
> Well, for the sake of precision, the scope of a transaction is probably
> confined to a Sybase context, but that should be transparent to you unless
> you start doing things like
> $dbh1 = new Sybase::DBlib "user", $password;
> $dbh2 = $dbh1->new "user2", $password2;
Heheheh... I wonder what the Sybase:: modules do in this case.
I suspect that they use the stringyfied value of $dbh1 as the package
name, and then allocate a new connection (which isn't quite right).
Michael
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