Deduplication is an effective alternative to transactions for eventually consistent use cases of a distributed database. Here’s why. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona ...

For example, some distributed databases only claim eventual consistency, 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 ...

There are also some transactions which SQL Server will treat as fully durable, no matter what the setting. Some examples of fully durable transactions on SQL Server 2014 include system transactions, ...