If you check the DBI sources, begin_work() is nothing more than $dbh->{AutoCommit} = 0;...

The nice thing about $dbh->begin_work() over local($dbh->{AutoCommit}) = 0; is that $dbh->begin_work() will not automatically commit on exiting scope...
That's a good point. My first reaction was that no driver should do that, but then I looked at my sources and realized that DBD::Sybase does indeed commit silently when AutoCommit is turned back on. I'm not sure that I like that behavior - I should probably issue a message about un-committed work at that point - if you have AutoCommit turned off you should really be forced to explicitly commit or rollback any changes, and just flipping AutoCommit back on isn't the same thing.

Michael

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: DBI AutoCommit clarification by mpeppler
in thread DBI AutoCommit clarification by Grygonos

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