You can also use distributed transactions whenever there's SQL Server to SQL Server communication and changes will be made to data during the course of the transaction, often done via a linked ...

“For them, each transaction is money,” Kelly said. More details will be given about the new features in SQL Server 2014 in the months ahead.

Some examples of fully durable transactions on SQL Server 2014 include system transactions, cross-database transactions, and transactions involved with FileTable, Change Tracking, and Change Data ...

SQL Server 2012 then borrowed this columnar processing technique for its own use. As an example of how the new SQL Server could speed performance, Kelly explained how a retail chain could benefit ...

SQL Server, of course, keeps track of everything that affects data in a transaction log, which is periodically rolled over into backup files (at least, if you're being a conscientious DBA it is). But ...

Microsoft has published the first Release Candidate of SQL Server 2025. RC0 introduces a number of notable new features, including official support for ...

If the transaction log and database are in the same device you can't do a transaction log dump. In this case you need do a Truncate Log on Checkpoint. You also can't dump the log if the Select ...

During the PASS Summit 2012, a technical conference for SQL Server professionals, Microsoft announced Hekaton, an in-memory row-based data management system targeted at transaction processing (TP) wor ...

SQL defaults to 0 which I think checkpoints every 60 seconds or so.. and to me unless you have a DB that does not scale well to the task and has massive writes and a poorly configured disk system ...

SQLNitro was recently clocked with a roundtrip speed of 206 milliseconds between traders in Korea and an SQL Server in Exeter, NH. The transaction was 31% faster than any previous test done by the ...