>yes it does say that. but the class that creates the database is in a private data session and there is no transaction running in this session.
>

A database is not open/create within a datasession, but globally,
because when the datasession is released, the database is not closed,
and it go into the other datasessions. This is by design.

CLEAR
CLOSE DATABASES ALL
LOCAL loCrtDB
*BEGIN TRANSACTION 
loCrtDB = CREATEOBJECT('clscreatedatabase')
loCrtDB.createdatabase()
? 
? "session :",SET("datasession"),"#databases :",ADATABASES(adbc),adbc[1]
*END TRANSACTION
RETURN 

DEFINE CLASS clscreatedatabase as Session
	PROCEDURE createdatabase()
		CREATE DATABASE c:\tempdb
		PRIVATE adbc
		? "session :",SET("datasession"),"#databases :",ADATABASES(adbc),adbc[1]
	ENDPROC 
	
ENDDEFINE

To create a database, doesn't have then, to exist some open transaction.

The only solution is to improve CREATE/OPEN DATABASE with a PRIVATE clause

* with PRIVATE the database is open only in this datasession
CREATE DATABASE dbcfilename PRIVATE

>sorry i forgot to describe that bit.