Control SQL transactions.
Subprocedures: READ_ONLY READ_WRITE ADVISE_ROLLBACK ADVISE_NOTHING ADVISE_COMMIT USE_ROLLBACK_SEGMENT COMMIT_COMMENT COMMIT_FORCE COMMIT SAVEPOINT ROLLBACK ROLLBACK_SAVEPOINT ROLLBACK_FORCE BEGIN_DISCRETE_TRANSACTION PURGE_MIXED PURGE_LOST_DB_ENTRY LOCAL_TRANSACTION_ID Function STEP_ID Function
For full documentation of the packaged procedures above see the Oracle Manual:
"Oracle9i Supplied PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference"
or the book Oracle Built in Packages
by Steven Feuerstein et al