SQL Transactions -- What are they?

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Can anyone please explain to me what a transaction is? Is it something like:

SELECT something FROM database2.table_name WHERE database1.table_name.column = database2.table_name.column

And does anyone know if MySQL now supports transactions? Name on the Win32 port.

Thanks so much,
Jason La
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