Re: SQL Server - do I need PHP to run COMMIT?

Using COMMIT is only required if you issued a BEGIN TRANS before your INSERTs, UPDATEs and / or DELETEs. All transactions are automatically committed if you don't use BEGIN TRANS. Are you backing up the transaction logs regularly? -- bob On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Alex Gemmell wrote: > Hello people, > > My PHP application uses a SQL Server 2000 database. I have previously > only ever used MySQL and so my knowledge of SQL Server comes just from > experimentation and trial and error experience. > > My PHP application appears to be working fine but I have just discovered > that although the database itself is rather small on the disk (about > 25MB) the transaction log file is huge (400MB). I have had a quick look > at Microsoft's website about large transaction files and they suggest > many reasons, one of which is the application not COMMITing > transactions. This is certainly true because I simply make INSERT and > UPDATE queries but don't include a COMMIT statement. > > So my question is this: should I be COMMITing? > > How do I do that? Do I simply run something like this after every > INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE: > > mssql_query('COMMIT', $link_identifier); > > Please help - I feel like I'm missing a trick here. > > FYI: I'm also now doubting my use of "mssql_pconnect()" - should I > being using "mssql_connect()" with "mssql_close()" instead? > > Thanks, > > Alex > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >