Ryan Capistrano AC181: We Delete and Restore Mrs. Hamilton From Our Example Database
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AC181
Exercise – Rollback
Read the problem carefully and write the answer on the spaces
provided for below.
#1:
We delete and restore Mrs. Hamilton from our example database.
DELETE
FROM person
WHERE id = 3; -- Lisa Hamilton
Question 1_1.
-- Is the person with id=3 really gone?
SELECT *
FROM person
WHERE id = 3;
Then try to rollback
-- ROLLBACK restores the deletion
ROLLBACK;
-- ONE hit expected !!!
SELECT *
FROM person
WHERE id = 3;
Question 1_2.
-- After rolling back, Is the data of a person where id = 3 (Hamilton’s record)
gone?
Answer 1_1. Yes, the data of Mrs. Hamilton has been deleted already by the use
of DELETE command. It is an auto commit command which will take effect even
there is no commit.
Answer 1_2. No, the data of Mrs. Hamilton will still remain on the database as
the rollback command had been use. It undo the previous command that did
you use that's why when we deleted her data earlier, the data comes back again
as is nothing happened.
#2:
The ROLLBACK is not restricted to one single row. It may affect several rows,
several commands, different kind of commands and even several tables.
--same as above
DELETE
FROM person
WHERE id = 3;
-- destroy all e-mail addresses
UPDATE contact
SET contact_value = 'unknown'
WHERE contact_type = 'email';
-- verify modifications
SELECT * FROM person;
SELECT * FROM contact;
Question 2_1. – 1st command - Is the person with id=3 really gone? 2nd command
- Will email address be updated?
-- A single ROLLBACK command restores the deletion in one table and the
modifications in another table
ROLLBACK;
-- verify ROLLBACK
SELECT * FROM person;
SELECT * FROM contact;
--after rolling back,
Question 2_1. – 1st command - Is the person with id=3 really gone? 2nd command
- Will email address be updated?
Answer 2_1. Yes, because the data has been deleted already with the use of
DELETE command. The email address will be updated as the command had been
used.
Answer 2_2. No, rolling back the transaction will make the previous command
null or void. The email address will not be updated as the rollback will affect all
the commands that the user used.
