MyIsam engine transaction support

Question

I was testing transaction support in innoDB tables, and just for the curriosity I tried to run the same transaction on MyIsam table, and surprisingly it worked. I am assumin

Answer 1

MyIsam tabels were not built for this. Not even in the 5+ versions. It only was meant to store data. It gives you no guarantee for transactions or data recovery. You should use InnoDB for this and, if needed, use MyIsam for replication purposes (it's faster to retrieve data with MyIsam tables since there's no cross-table checks).

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