START TRANSACTION
Synopsis
Use the START TRANSACTION
statement to start a transaction with the default (or specified) isolation level.
Syntax
start_transaction ::= START TRANSACTION [ transaction_mode [ ... ] ]
start_transaction
Semantics
The START TRANSACTION
statement is simply an alternative spelling for the BEGIN
statement. The syntax that follows START TRANSACTION
is identical to that syntax that follows BEGIN [ TRANSACTION | WORK ]
. And the two alternative spellings have identical semantics.