| Platform SDK: Transaction Server |
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The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC) is a system service that coordinates transactions. Work can be committed as an atomic transaction even if it spans multiple resource managers, potentially on separate computers.
MS DTC was first released as part of Microsoft SQL Server version 6.5 and is included in MTS, providing a low-level infrastructure for transactions. MS DTC implements a two-phase commit protocol to ensure that the transaction outcome (either commit or abort) is consistent across all resource managers involved in a transaction. MS DTC ensures atomicity, regardless of failures.
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