Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator

The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) operates as a transaction manager that allows client applications to include several different sources of data in one transaction. MS DTC coordinates committing the distributed transaction across all the servers engaged in the transaction.

SQL Server can participate in the transaction by calling stored procedures on remote servers running SQL Server, promoting the local transaction to a distributed transaction, and enlisting remote servers in the transaction, or by making distributed updates that update data on multiple OLE DB data sources. Figure 7.1 shows the promotion of a local transaction to a distributed transaction that enlists a remote ...

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