Transactions that modify data in multiple databases

A transaction that modifies primary data in more than one data server may require additional concurrency control. According to the transaction processing requirements, either all of the operations in the transaction must be performed, or none of them. If a transaction fails on one data server, it must be rolled back on all other data servers updated in the transaction.

If a multi-database transaction is replicated, updates to each database flow to replicate databases as independent transactions because there is one Replication Agent per database.