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Transaction and Try-catch in SQL Server Job

We have DML operations in each step of a SQL Server job. To ensure the update/insert will be rolled back in case something goes wrong, I have wrapped the data modifications of each step in TRY CATCH ...
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1answer
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Add user to Server Role in a transaction

Situation One webapp responsible for creating other webapps using SQL Server 2008 R2 Stored Procedures. One of the steps in creating another webapp is creating a new database, a login/user, assigning ...
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What server property makes TransactionScope escalating to MSDTC?

In our application we're using TransactionScope's. We're aiming to not use the MSDTC service because it's a lot slower than lightweight transactions. using (var transactionScope = new ...
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2answers
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SQL Server Transaction Timeout

Is there a way in SQL Server 2008 R2 to cause a timeout for a database modification involving a transaction? We have a scenario where our application code hangs or throws an exception and fails to ...
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Can I use transaction logs to rebuild a database?

We've had some data loss and don't have a reliable backup it seems. We do have HUGE transaction logs and there was some thought that we might be able to use these to get back to a certain point. Is ...