Bound Connections

During the course of a transaction, the process that initiated the transaction acquires exclusive locks on the data that is modified. These locks prevent other user processes or connections from seeing any of these changes until they are committed. However, it is common for some SQL Server applications to have multiple connections to SQL Server. Even though each connection might be for the same user, SQL Server treats each connection as an entirely separate SQL Server process, and by default, one connection cannot see the uncommitted changes of another, nor modify records locked by the other connection.

Bound connections provide a means of linking multiple connections together to share the same lock space and participate in ...

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