MySQL has no transaction support?

Question

I heard MySQL has no transaction support at all? Is that true? If yes, how could people write reliable code to make sure data consistency and reliable compared to other commercial database (e.g. Oracle/SQL Server)?

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

Actually MySQL does include support for transactions through the InnoDB storage engine which is bundled with MySQL. It's not the default storage engine but that setting can be changed. Or you can simply specify the engine when creating your tables.

create table mytable (...) engine=innodb;