ASP Transactions

by Chris Payne Introduction

Transactions are important to maintain data integrity, among other things, and have been used with
databases for some time now. Luckily, transactions aren\'t restricted to databases - you can use them in
Active Server Pages as well, and without having to create custom components using Microsoft Transaction
Server (MTS). This article will take a look at what transactions are, how they will help ASP developers,
and how to implement them.

What are Transactions?

Before we dive into the meat, we have to understand the terminology (believe me, I was lost for a long
time because no _disibledevent= value %>




Where value can be any one of the following:

Requires_New

The script will always start a new transaction.