Performing Distributed Transactions

The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) allows applications to extend transactions across two or more instances of Microsoft® SQL Server™. It also allows applications to participate in transactions managed by transaction managers that comply with the X/Open DTP XA standard. ODBC applications that use SQL Server version 6.5 or later can participate in MS DTC transactions.

Normally, all transaction management commands are sent through the ODBC driver to the server. The application starts a transaction by calling SQLSetConnectAttr with the autocommit mode turned off. The application then performs the updates comprising the transaction and calls SQLEndTran with either the SQL_COMMIT or SQL_ROLLBACK option.

When using MS DTC, however, MS DTC becomes the transaction manager and the application no longer uses SQLEndTran.

To use Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator