Steve Sarre          Bronze Collection   
 
In previous releases of Data Access Objects (DAO), if you executed SQL statements, they were internally treated as transactions. If you executed a statement with the dbFailOnError flag on and the query failed, the operation was rolled back. For performance reasons, a SQL statement is no longer treated as a transaction. Therefore, if a SQL query fails in Microsoft Access, an incomplete operation might occur. If you think an error might occur, you should explicitly use the statement within a transaction by using the BeginTrans method and the CommitTrans method. Note that explicit transactions might slow query performance.
 
However, when I tested this for myself on regular Access queries, the operation was rolled back. Either way, for the moment it looks like I'll be extra careful and probably use explicit transactions.