IT Bytes

One of my biggest bugbears with .net transactions is that for all but the simplest of cases your transaction will be promoted from a light-weight transaction to a full-blown DTC transaction even when the only database you talk to was SQL Server 2005. However Florin Lazar (a must read for those interested in transactions) has blogged about some welcome improvements to SQL 2008 that mean we can finally go all light-weight…for once that phrase is a good thing (well apart from fast cars, planes, moving house…)!