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Lab 06 – Transactions and Security

Objectives:
The purpose of this lab is to introduce the student to both transactions and security. In the real-world, databases tasks
often involve multiple steps and if any step in the middle fails, the procedure is a failure. This lap walks the student
through a couple transactions and lets them learn how various steps have varying consequences that they need to be
aware of.

By the end of this lab, the student will be able to:

 Describe the steps of a transaction, how a transaction begins and ends and walk through live scenarios of a
variety of transactions.
 Understand and act appropriately on what needs to be done in the case of transaction failure.
 Grant and revoke permissions to and from other users and public users from the database

Submission:
Your submission will be a single WORD file with the query and result screenshot from Oracle SQL developer.
Make sure every SQL statement terminates with a semicolon.
 You will use following data to complete the given tasks:
 SET TRANSACTION READ WRITE starts a new transaction.

 COMMIT commits the current transaction, making its changes permanent.

 SAVEPOINT <name> sets a pointer to a location that can be rolled back to.
 ROLLBACK rolls back the current transaction, canceling its changes.
 SET auto commit disables or enables the default auto commit mode for the current session.

Tasks:

It is very important that these tasks/questions be performed in the order presented here for
maximum learning.

PART A - Transactions
1. Execute the following commands.
SET AUTCOMMIT OFF;
SET TRANSACTION READ WRITE;

Using SQL, create an empty table, that is the same as the RETAILCUSTOMERS table, and name it
new Customers.
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2. Write an INSERT statement to populate the new Customers table with the rows of the sample data.
(Write a single INSERT statement to insert all the rows, combine first name and last name to get full
name during insert)

customerNumber contactLastNam contactFirstName Phone addressLine1 city country

e
100 Patel Ralph 2233355555 10 SenecaWay Paris France
101 Denis Betty 3344455555 110 SenecaWay Chicago USA

102 Biri Ben 44555445544 13000 SenecaWay Toronto Canada

103 Newman Chad 66777332233 12 SenecaWay Mexico city Mexico

104 Ropeburn Audrey 7788811212 15000 SenecaWay Havana Cuba

105 Lucy Preston 45555511111 12 SenecaWay Charlotte USA

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3. Create a query that shows all the inserted rows from the new Customers table. How many rows are
selected?

4. Execute the rollback command. Display all rows and columns from the new Customers table. How
many rows are selected?

No rows selected

5. Repeat Question 2. Make the insertion permanent to the table newCustomers. Display all rows and
columns from the new Customers table. How many rows are selected?
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6 rows were inserted

6. Write an update statement to update the value of column addressLine1 to ‘unknown’ for all the
customers in the new Customers table.

7. Make your changes permanent.

8. Execute the rollback command.

a. Display all customers from the new Customers table whose address is ‘unknown’. How many
rows are still updated?

Ans->None of the rows were updated

b. Was the rollback command effective?

 Rollback made no changes

c. What was the difference between the result of the rollback execution from Question 6 and the
result of the rollback execution of this task?

The difference is that there, the rollback changed got committed, I believe…
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9. Begin a new transaction and then create a statement to delete the customers from the newCustomers
table

10. Perform a rollback to undo the deletion of the customers.

a. How many customers are now in the new Customers table?

 There are 0 now.

b. Was the rollback effective and why?

Using commit wasn’t effective due to use of commit, rollback was useless
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11. Begin a new transaction and rerun the data insertion from Question 2 (copy the code down to
Question 11 and run it)

12. Set a Save point, called insertion, after inserting the data
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13. Rerun the update statement from Question 6 and run a query to view the data (copy the code down
and run it again)

14. Rollback the transaction to the Save point created in Question 12 above and run a query to view the
data.
What does the data look like (i.e. describe what happened?

Addressline1 is no longer displayed as unknown due to the save point insertion.

15. Use the rollback statement and again view the data. Describe what the results look like and what
happened.
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Unable to notice any changes, it went to the previous commit.

Part B - Permissions
16. Write a statement that denies all access to the new Customers table for all public users.

17. Write a statement that allows a person ‘btd210_241naa40’ read only access to the new Customers
table.
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18. Write a statement that allows the same person ‘btd210_241naa40’ to modify (insert, update and
delete) the data of the new Customers table.

19. Write a statement the denies all access to the new Customers table for the same person
‘btd210_241naa40’.
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Part C – Clean up
20. Write statements to permanently remove the view and table created for this lab.