Chatty or Chunky? What do you mean? Running code block with a transaction can ensure the atomicity of the code, all done or all undone. In defult programming mode, select statement will never start a transaction automatically. Data modification language, such insert, delete, update, merge, send, receive, etc, will automatically start a transaction as the command starts if there isn’t any transactions and will commit
automatically (if there isn’t any transactions). I call this kind of strategy Chatty.

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