Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

A TP monitor for Windows NT servers from Microsoft that supports transaction-based applications on LANs, the Internet and intranets. It also serves as the infrastructure for a multi-tier system. It is ...

The next version of Microsoft’s relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a ...

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Yin and yang, life and death, Clark Kent and Superman. Some concepts are so intertwined that it’s impossible to imagine one without the other. Transaction processing (TP) and relational databases ...

Delayed durability was announced late in the SQL Server 2014 development cycle, but offers something that many SQL Server professionals have wanted for years—the ability to disable transaction logging ...

I would like to know how transaction log size is managed. I now know after some <BR>reading that I can checkpoint the database in order to allow dirty pages to write from ram to disk.I also know now ...

“Today's modern CPUs cannot be fed data fast enough with old approaches to application architecture,” said Thomas Kejser, SQL Server Customer Advisory Team enterprise database specialist. “To fully ...