May 1, 2023 · A transaction is a sequence of one or more SQL operations that are treated as a unit. Specifically, each transaction appears to run in isolation, and furthermore, if the system …

I understand how a transaction might be useful for co-ordinating a pair of updates. What I don't understand is wrapping single statements in transactions, which is 90% of what I've ever seen. …

Apr 14, 2012 · Shouldn't BEGIN TRANSACTION [Tran1] be placed inside TRY? Anyway - very simple and elegant piece of code.

Feb 3, 2016 · 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 …

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...

Feb 22, 2013 · 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 …

There is an Update query in progress, the Transaction is started at a higher level on the connection. In order to ensure that all server data is in a valid state for the Update, I need to …

Aug 25, 2016 · 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 …

Aug 23, 2012 · However, in some situations, you might want to roll back the transaction explicitly, for example to avoid calling commit accidentally somewhere else in the code. Here is an …

A distributed transaction is a transaction on a distributed database (i.e., one where the data is stored on a number of physically separate systems). It's noteworthy because there's a fair …