title: How do I use transaction with oracle SQL?
body: <p>I am trying to use transaction blocks on a SQL-Console with an Oracle DB. I'm used to use transaxction blocks in PostgreSQL like</p>
  
  <pre><code>BEGIN;
  &lt;simple sql statement&gt;
  END;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but in oracle it seems that this is not possible. I'm always getting "ORA-00900" errors and I don't know how to fix that. If I just use SQL-Statements like</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;simple sql statement&gt;
  COMMIT;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it works. But isn't there some tag to define the start of a transaction? I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>START TRANSACTION;
  &lt;simple sql statement&gt;
  COMMIT;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it still throws an ORA-00900. My operating system is windows, I am using IntelliJ IDEA and a Oracle 11g DB.</p>