Deduplication is an effective alternative to transactions for eventually consistent use cases of a distributed database. Here’s why.

For example, some distributed databases only claim eventualconsistency, which allows them to say that a transaction has committed before all database nodes have finished writing.

This example creates a data set remotely by remotely submitting a DATA step. Next, it creates a local transaction data set. Using RLS, it assigns a local LIBNAME to the remote library. Finally, the ...

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 ...