autoflush

JPA is essentially an higher abstraction of JDBC. EntityManager has an API setAutoFlushMode. It can be set to AUTO or COMMIT. What's th equivalent of this in JDBC terms? thanks JDBC has auto commit as well. They're both for configuring whether the library should automatically commit to the database. JDBCs auto-commit is very simplistic, it will commit every update to the database immediately. Without auto-commit, changes aren't committed until the commit method is called. JPA AUTO causes a flush to the database before a query is executed. Simple operations like find don't require a flush since

I'd like to be able to show a progress meter in a simple PHP script on the command line. Instead of seeing Progress: 0% Progress: 1% etc... I'd like just the number to change, and replace the previous number, much like git clone does for example Resolving deltas: 100% (8522/8522), done. . While searching for this I found the same question answered in Perl , which is perfect, but I couldn't find it in PHP. Is it possible? If not, I'll resort to C. Thanks Update: If anyone's interested in the C++ version, it's here . This can be done using ANSI Escape Sequences -- see here for a list. In PHP,