Which statement, other than START TRANSACTION, is used for starting a transaction?

We can also use the BEGIN statement to start a new transaction. It is the same as the START TRANSACTION statement.

Example

mysql> BEGIN;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO Marks Values(1, 'Aarav','History',40);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO Marks Values(2, 'Harshit','History',48);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> ROLLBACK;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.04 sec)

In this example, the transaction is initiated by the BEGIN Statement rather than START TRANSACTION statement. Two INSERT statements are then executed followed by a ROLLBACK statement. ROLLBACK statement will undo the changes made to the database which can be observed from the following result set which shows that no new values have been inserted into the table −

mysql> SELECT * FROM Marks;
+------+---------+---------+-------+
| Id   | Name    | Subject | Marks |
+------+---------+---------+-------+
|    1 | Aarav   | Maths   |    50 |
|    2 | Harshit | Maths   |    55 |
+------+---------+---------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)