Support Services
The Support Services folder contains the control icons for three services: Distributed Transaction Coordinator, Full-Text Search, and SQL Mail.
Distributed Transaction Coordinator
In a multi-server environment, DTC is used to ensure transactional integrity across servers. The only configuration available from EM is to start or stop the service. Chapter 32, “Distributed Transaction Processing,” explains why and how you would use distributed transactions.
Full-Text Search
Full-Text Search uses indexes stored outside of SQL Server to provide fast searches on text data. The only configuration provided in EM is to start and stop the service.
SQL Mail
SQL Server has the ability to send and receive e-mail messages, but to do so, it ...
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