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description: "Step 5: Commit the Transaction"
title: "Step 5: Commit the Transaction | Microsoft Docs"
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# Step 5: Commit the Transaction
The next step is to commit the transaction, as shown in the following illustration.  
  
 ![Shows how to commit a transaction](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/media/pr16.gif "pr16")  
  
 The fifth step is to call **SQLEndTran** to commit or roll back the transaction. The application performs this step only if it set the transaction commit mode to manual-commit; if the transaction commit mode is auto-commit, which is the default, the transaction is automatically committed when the statement is executed. For more information, see [Transactions](../../../odbc/reference/develop-app/transactions-odbc.md).  
  
 To execute a statement in a new transaction, the application returns to step 3. To disconnect from the data source, the application proceeds to step 6.