Hi Helen

This worries me . .

> Autocommit true as a rule to abide by, no way. In your design, you have

to

> work out which tasks need autocommit and, if you use it, *always*
> instantiate that transaction. Use autocommit for transactions that

require

> it, but wrap its use inside a timed explicit commit cycle.
>

I have always exentsively used autocommit and my default transaction is
that. I only use explict transactions when multiple tasks have to be
parcelled up.

To change hundreds of small reads and writes to explicit transactions would
be a massive and messy task

What exactly is the problem?

Regards
Paul