How do I turn off autocommit for a MySQL client?

Question

I have a web app that has been written with the assumption that autocommit is turned on on the database, so I don\'t want to make any changes there. However all the document

Answer 1

You do this in 3 different ways:

1. Before you do an INSERT, always issue a BEGIN; statement. This will turn off autocommits. You will need to do a COMMIT; once you want your data to be persisted in the database.

2. Use autocommit=0; every time you instantiate a database connection.

3. For a global setting, add a autocommit=0 variable in your my.cnf configuration file in MySQL.