The mechanism varies. It could be as simple as a cookie, or a timeout, or as
complicated as a client side script and buffers. "Commit trans" is never
sent to the database without a specific, verifiable trigger mechanism ...
as I stated earlier, Internet banking would not be possible unless there was
a mechanism to do this in a stateless environment.

Hell, commerce on the Internet would be impossible if there was no
mechanisms for maintaining state on a web transaction.

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"Michael Daly" wrote in message
On 31-Oct-2003, "Swingman" wrote:

I cannot think of a single modern relational database that
does not have transactional processing built in

The relational database is hooked to the web server, not the
user. How does the relational database know what the user is
doing if the transaction takes several _independent_ steps?
Completion/rollback of a transaction has to be triggered from
something - what is that?

Mike