Use OleDbTransaction
using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.OleDb; public class Transact { public static void Main () { String connect = "Provider=Microsoft.JET.OLEDB.4.0;data source=.\\Employee.mdb"; OleDbConnection con = new OleDbConnection(connect); con.Open(); Console.WriteLine("Made the connection to the database"); OleDbCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand(); OleDbTransaction trans = con.BeginTransaction(); cmd.Transaction = trans; cmd.CommandText = "UPDATE Employee SET Salary = 1342 " + "WHERE ID > 1"; cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); cmd.CommandText = "SELECT First_name FROM Employee"; OleDbDataReader reader = cmd.ExecuteReader(); while(reader.Read()) Console.WriteLine("{0}", reader.GetString(0)); reader.Close(); con.Close(); } }