JET_SESID

Applies to: Windows | Windows Server

JET_SESID

The JET_SESID data type contains a handle to the session to use for a call to the JET API.

    typedef JET_API_PTR JET_SESID;

Data Types

JET_SESID

Either NULL or JET_sesidNil can be used to indicate an invalid session handle.

Remarks

A session is the transaction context of the database engine. It can be used to begin, commit, or abort transactions that affect the visibility and durability of changes that are made by this or other sessions.

A transaction can be started using JetBeginTransaction. A session may be created using JetBeginSession. The maximum number of sessions that can be created at any one time is controlled by JET_paramMaxSessions, which can be configured by means of JetSetSystemParameter.

A session is explicitly ended by a call to JetEndSession or implicitly ended by a call to JetTerm.

Each session can only be used by one thread at a time. In addition, the default behavior of the engine is to restrict the use of a session to the same thread from the time the first call to JetBeginTransaction is made until the time when the matching call to JetCommitTransaction or JetRollback is made. This behavior can be changed to remove this second restriction by setting a custom session context using JetSetSessionContext and JetResetSessionContext.

Requirements

See Also

JET_paramMaxSessions
JetBeginSession
JetBeginTransaction
JetCommitTransaction
JetEndSession
JetResetSessionContext
JetRollback
JetSetSessionContext
JetSetSystemParameter
JetTerm