I'm stretching my memory as a "full stack" dev back in the 90s but I seem to recall that CF couldn't do transactions for its first few versions. People were beg

I'm stretching my memory as a "full stack" dev back in the 90s but I seem to recall that CF couldn't do transactions for its first few versions. People were begging for <cftransaction> to become a thing. I also don't remember being able to call an oracle stored procedure from CF in version 1 or 2.. But I'm hazy on that for some reason I remember the ODBC driver not supporting it. As a result I recall resorting to hacky stuff like what you describe. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if there is government cfml code out there from the 90's. It was a challenging time with far fewer tools.