Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC)
MS DTC is Microsoft's Distributed Transaction Coordinator. It was introduced with SQL Server 6.5 as a means to manage distributed transactions involving several SQL databases. In this way, MS DTC acts as a transaction processing (TP) monitor on the Windows platform. The DTC creates a transaction object supporting the ITransaction interface to represent each new distributed transaction. Other interfaces support the two-phase commit process, allowing enlisted resource managers to vote on the success of the their parts of the overall operation. One dissenting resource manager causes the whole transaction to abort, in which case DTC notifies the constituent resource managers that all bets are ...
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