33 Managing Distributed Transactions

This chapter describes how to manage and troubleshoot distributed transactions. The following topics are included in this chapter:

• Specifying the Commit Point Strength of a Node

• Naming Transactions

• Viewing Information About Distributed Transactions

• Deciding How to Handle In-Doubt Transactions

• Manually Overriding In-Doubt Transactions

• Purging Pending Rows from the Data Dictionary

• Manually Committing an In-Doubt Transaction: Example

• Data Access Failures Due to Locks

• Simulating Distributed Transaction Failure

• Managing Read Consistency