How To Commit the Current Transaction? - MySQL FAQs - Transaction Management: Commit or Rollback

If you have used some DML statements updated some data objects, and you want to have the updates to be permanently recorded in the database, you can use the COMMIT command. It will make all the database changes made in the current transaction become permanent and end the current transaction. The following tutorial exercise shows you how to use COMMIT commands:

>\mysql\bin\mysql -u dev -piyf fyi

mysql> START TRANSACTION;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO fyi_links (url, id)
   VALUES ('fyicenter.com', 101);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.11 sec)

mysql> INSERT INTO fyi_links (url, id)
   VALUES ('centerfyi.com', 110);
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SELECT * FROM fyi_links;
+-----+---------------+-------+--------+--------------------
| id  | url           | notes | counts | created           
+-----+---------------+-------+--------+--------------------
| 101 | fyicenter.com | NULL  |   NULL | 2006-07-01 20:27:49
| 110 | centerfyi.com | NULL  |   NULL | 2006-07-01 20:28:10
+-----+---------------+-------+--------+--------------------
2 rows in set (0.07 sec)

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