Chapter 31. Transaction Management and the Transaction Log

by Ray Rankins

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • What Is a Transaction?

  • How SQL Server Manages Transactions

  • Defining Transactions

  • Transaction Logging and the Recovery Process

  • Transactions and Batches

  • Transactions and Stored Procedures

  • Transactions and Triggers

  • Transactions and Locking

  • Coding Effective Transactions

  • Long-Running Transactions

  • Bound Connections

  • Distributed Transactions

Transaction management is an important area within database programming. The transactions you construct and issue can have a huge impact on the performance of SQL Server and the consistency of your databases. This chapter takes a look at the methods for defining and managing transactions within SQL Server 2000.

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