Example 1: Starting a Default Transaction in a Multistatement Procedure or as a Single Statement SQL> START DEFAULT TRANSACTION; SQL> SQL> BEGIN cont> COMMIT; cont> START DEFAULT TRANSACTION; cont> END; SQL> SQL> ROLLBACK; Example 2: Starting Several Variations of the START TRANSACTION Statement SQL> START TRANSACTION READ WRITE, cont> ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED; SQL> COMMIT; SQL> SQL> -- Defaults to serializable SQL> START TRANSACTION READ WRITE; SQL> COMMIT; SQL> SQL> -- Defaults to read write SQL> START TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED; SQL> ROLLBACK; SQL> SQL> -- Defaults to read write serializable SQL> START TRANSACTION; SQL> SQL> BEGIN cont> COMMIT; cont> START TRANSACTION cont> ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED, cont> READ WRITE; cont> END; SQL> COMMIT;