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   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:   
   >      If I understand you correctly, then this covers my main concern:   
   > atomicity of the whole operation.   
      
   Yes, that is what you get.   
      
   If you for some reason don't want the atomicity, there are ways to cheat.   
   And, yes, I've seen people to ask for that.   
      
      
   --   
   Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Links for SQL Server Books Online:   
   SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx   
   SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx   
      
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