Understanding MTS Transactions

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Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) enables you to easily use, monitor, and administer distributed transactions in your applications. A distributed transaction is a transaction involving updates to transaction-protected resources on more than one system. The MTS transaction manager, Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MS DTC), provides a distributed transaction facility for Windows NT® and Windows® 98 systems.

MS DTC also makes it possible to update two or more transaction-protected resources on a single system. For example, MS DTC permits a Microsoft SQL Server database, a Microsoft Message Queue Server message queue, and an Oracle database to be updated under the control of a single transaction.

See Also

Managing MS DTC, Monitoring MTS Transactions, Monitoring MTS Transactions with Windows 98, Understanding MTS Transaction States, Resolving MTS Transactions