Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

Using the Transact SQL ALTER DATABASE statement to shrink the transaction log file Open SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and click Query Analyzer to open the Query Analyzer window.

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

eWEEK and Dave Rosenthal, co-founder of FoundationDB, offer 10 reasons your NoSQL database should support transactions.

Modern relational databases need to handle multiple transactions simultaneously (via a process known as Online Transaction Processing – OLTP).

The introduction of increased transactional capability into non-relational databases makes sense-in the same way that providing SQL layers on top of Hadoop and many other non-relational stores makes ...

If you put your databases in Simple Recovery Model, it tells the SQL Server CHECKPOINT process to write the transactions from the T-log to the data file and after a successful write, to purge them ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

The term 'NoSQL' is widely acknowledged as an unfortunate and inaccurate tag for the non-relational databases that have emerged in the past five years. The databases that are associated with the NoSQL ...

These SQL relational databases offer both horizontal scalability and support for ACID transactions—some on a global scale ...