Sybase 12.4.2 - Manual (Page 10)

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Referential integrity is unenforced......................................... 284
Integrity rules in the system tables ............................................... 285
CHAPTER 8 Transactions and Versioning ..................................................... 287
Overview of transactions and versioning ..................................... 287
Introduction to transactions ................................................... 287
Introduction to concurrency ................................................... 290
Introduction to versioning ...................................................... 291
Versioning prevents inconsistencies ............................................ 299
How locking works ....................................................................... 299
Locks for DML operations ..................................................... 299
Locks for DDL operations...................................................... 300
Primary keys and locking ...................................................... 302
Isolation levels.............................................................................. 302
Checkpoints, savepoints, and transaction rollback ...................... 303
Checkpoints........................................................................... 304
Savepoints within transactions .............................................. 305
Rolling back transactions ...................................................... 307
System recovery.................................................................... 307
How transaction information aids recovery ........................... 308
Performance implications ............................................................. 309
Overlapping versions and deletions ...................................... 310
Cursors in transactions ................................................................ 311
Cursors and versioning ......................................................... 312
Cursor sensitivity ................................................................... 312
Cursor scrolling ..................................................................... 312
Hold cursors .......................................................................... 313
Positioned operations............................................................ 313
Cursor command syntax and examples ................................ 313
Controlling message logging for cursors ............................... 313
CHAPTER 9 International Languages and Character Sets ........................... 315
Introduction to international languages and character sets.......... 315
Adaptive Server IQ international features ............................. 315
Using the default collation ..................................................... 316
Character set questions and answers ................................... 316
Understanding character sets in software.................................... 317
Pieces in the character set puzzle......................................... 317
Language issues in client/server computing ......................... 318
Code pages in Windows and Windows NT ........................... 319
Multibyte character sets ........................................................ 321
Sorting characters using collations........................................ 322
International aspects of case sensitivity ................................ 322