Distributed Transactions
Thus far, our discussion has been limited to transactions on a single database. What if more than one database is involved? What if more than one database server is involved? What if a nondatabase operation, such as modifying an in-memory cache, is involved? Can you use BEGIN TRANSACTION to bind other such operations within a single transaction? Unfortunately, you cannot. BEGIN TRANSACTION works only on local transactions dealing with data in a database. These transactions do not apply to an in-memory cache, because no transaction logging mechanism is available.
In this section, we’ll look at a deeper theory of transactions and explore the Transaction Management API in the .NET Framework System.Transactions namespace. You’ll ...
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