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 ...

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CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a transactional and consistent key-value store that can withstand datacenter failures Until very recently, when you shopped for a database you ...

Relational SQL databases, which have been around since the 1980s, historically ran on mainframes or single servers—that’s all we had. If you wanted the database to handle more data and run faster, you ...