How do I use transaction with oracle SQL? : <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>
