xa_bqual

Description

Returns the binary version of the bqual component of an ASCII XA transaction ID.

Syntax

xa_bqual(xid, 0)

Parameters

xid

is the ID of an Adaptive Server transaction, obtained from the xactname column in systransactions or from sp_transactions.

0

is reserved for future use

Examples

Example 1

Returns “0x227f06ca80”, the binary translation of the branch qualifier for the Adaptive Server transaction ID “0000000A_IphIT596iC7bF2#AUfkzaM_8DY6OE0”. The Adaptive Server transaction ID is first obtained using sp_transactions:

1> sp_transactions
xactkey                        type     coordinator starttime           state      connection dbid  spid  loid  failover    srvname  namelen  xactname
------------------------------ -------- ----------- ------------------- ---------- ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----------- -------  -------  ---------------------------------------
0x531600000600000017e4885b0700 External XA          Dec 9 2005  5:15PM In Command  Attached     7   20    877  Resident Tx  NULL         39  0000000A_IphIT596iC7bF2#AUfkzaM_8DY6OE0
1> select xa_bqual("0000000A_IphIT596iC7bF2#AUfkzaM_8DY6OE0", 0)
2> go
...

--------------------------------------------------------------------

0x227f06ca80

Example 2

xa_bqual is often used together with xa_gtrid. This example returns the global transaction IDs and branch qualifiers from all rows in systransactions where its coordinator column is the value of “3”:

1> select gtrid=xa_gtrid(xactname,0),
    bqual=xa_bqual(xactname,0) 
    from systransactions where coordinator = 3
2> go
        gtrid

        bqual

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

--------------------------------------------------------------------------

         0xb1946cdc52464a61cba42fe4e0f5232b

         0x227f06ca80

Usage

If an external transaction is blocked on Adaptive Server and you are using sp_lock and sp_transactions to identify the blocking transaction, you can use the XA transaction manager to terminate the global transaction. However, when you execute sp_transactions, the value of xactname it returns is in ASCII string format, while XA Server uses an undecoded binary value. Using xa_bqual thus allows you to determine the bqual portion of the transaction name in a format that can be understood by the XA transaction manager.

xa_bqual returns:

Notexa_bqual does not perform a validation check on the xid, but only returns a translated string.

Standards

ANSI SQL – Compliance level: Transact-SQL extension.

Permissions

Any user can use xa_bqual.

See also

Functions xa_gtrid

Stored procedures sp_lock, sp_transactions