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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005

by Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar, Dejan Sarka
May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
15h 13m
English
Microsoft Press
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What Are Transactions?

Transactions allow you to define the boundaries of activity that will be considered atomic. You do so by enclosing the statements that you want to participate in the transaction in a BEGIN TRAN/COMMIT TRAN block. Note that in SQL Server the default behavior is to consider a statement that does not appear in an explicit transaction block to be its own transaction–as if you enclosed that statement alone in a BEGIN TRAN/COMMIT TRAN block.

Whenever you submit a change to the database, SQL Server first checks whether the pages that need to be affected already reside in cache. If they do, the pages are modified in cache. If they don’t, they’re first loaded from disk into the cache and modified there. SQL Server records the changes ...

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