Using Transaction Processing in a Client/Server Environment

When dealing with transactions in a client/server environment, you must consider several additional issues: when and how transactions occur, what types of transactions the server supports, and what types of problems can occur. When using Access in a client/server environment, it is always best to implement transaction processing on the server rather than in your ADO code. Chapter 8, “Designing SQL Server Stored Procedures, User-Defined Functions, and Triggers,” covers transaction processing on the server. This means that if all of your update code is in a stored procedure, and the stored procedure contains transaction processing, you can roll back the transaction at the server level ...

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