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Disabling AutoCommit in JDBC

Disabling AutoCommit in JDBC

Only once the development part of the project is complete do we tend to look at the performance of our application’s interaction with the database and realize that the transactions are relatively slow. A potential source for bottleneck could be the autoCommit feature of your connection to the database.

Most of the time, database operations are time-consuming when compared to in-memory operations. In addition, such actions add to the overhead. Ideally, instead of auto committing after every insert, it is ideal to commit once the transaction is complete.

For example, instead of committing every insert, while you are reading from a file and inserting records, it is better to commit after the entire file is read and the database updated. There are numerous other cases where you can consider this options.

//Connect to the database Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection( host, username, password );    connection.setAutoCommit (false); // Setting the auto commit to false. This will ensure that commit is not automatic//You can enable it by passing true subsequently when you think it is appropriate.
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