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Is it a bad practice to always create a transaction?

Is it a bad practice to always create a transaction? For example, it is a good practice to create a transaction for nothing but one simple SELECT? What is the cost of creating a transaction when it ...
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1answer
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Does TRUNCATE TABLE affects isolation level in Sql Server?

As I am working on the project which has SQL SERVER as a database....I'm maintaining isolation level in my project where I enabled snapshot isolation level for my project.... As I have to make some ...
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1answer
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Does a transaction cover the subroutines?

When I begin transaction and exec a stored procedure, does that transaction cover the changes made by the stored procedure I executed? Would a rollback transaction cancel the changes made by the ...
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1answer
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Save Transaction: Is the name local to the stored procedure or not?

Some foot shooting just occured on a production server. I fixed the problem, but I'm now rather confused. There is a subset of stored procedures that preserve state on failure. That is, if the ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to write an SQL query that automatically reconciles/“transactionalizes” payments and charges

I'm still working on the project mentioned here (http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/2428/how-do-i-properly-design-a-many-to-many-charges-payments-accounting-system). The system is to give the ...
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Deadlock Error from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008

After migrating data from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008,when I am doing any a transaction in the table which find out more row on the database,that's gives me error. Transaction (Process ID ...