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Data management[edit]

A COMMIT statement in SQL ends a transaction within a relational database management


system (RDBMS) and makes all changes visible to other users. The general format is to issue
a BEGIN WORK (or BEGIN TRANSACTION , depending on the database vendor) statement, one or
more SQL statements, and then the COMMIT statement. Alternatively, a ROLLBACK statement can
be issued, which undoes all the work performed since BEGIN WORK was issued.
A COMMIT statement will also release any existing savepoints that may be in use.

In terms of transactions, the opposite of commit is to discard the tentative changes of a transaction,
a rollback.

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