concurrency
A transaction is a unit of work that you want to treat as "a whole." It has to either happen in full or not at all. A classical example is transferring money from one bank account to
The good news is a transaction in SQL Server can span multiple batches (each exec is treated as a separate batch.) You can wrap your EXEC statements in a BEGIN
I have a long running process that holds open a transaction for the full duration. I have no control over the way this is executed. Because a transaction is held open for the full duration, whe...
Looking at the SQL Server Books Online, Microsoft seems to have an (incorrect) method of handling nested transactions in a stored procedure: Nesting Transactions Explicit
What is the proper way to test for insert/update failures and rollback this transaction if there are any? I don''t think what I have will work since my inserts/updates are 3
Add a try/catch block, if the transaction succeeds it will commit the changes, if the transaction fails the transaction is rolled back:
BEGIN TRANSACTION / COMMIT "extends" this locking functionality to the work done by multiple statements, but it adds nothing to single statements. However, the database
I am trying to use transaction blocks on a SQL-Console with an Oracle DB. I''m used to use transaxction blocks in PostgreSQL like BEGIN; <simple sql statement> END; but in
Do u think there is a better way to write a transaction in t-sql? Is there a better approach that improves maintainability and performance of the application that uses this
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