>Well, the BEGINE TRANSACTION 'worked' here. At least it didn't error. The
>bigger question is; What's the correlation between a DBC and transactions?
>
>I fail to see what a database has to do with transactions

"Worked" and "didn't error" are not the same (as you have pointed out). It does not work, as the only true reason for having a transaction is to give the ability to ROLLBACK. And, you cannot ROLLBACK a free table.

The TRANSACTION/ROLLBACK functionality depends on (uses) the DBC to do its work.

Do you have to use free tables?