You can also use distributed transactions whenever there's SQL Server to SQL Server communication and changes will be made to data during the course of the transaction, often done via a linked server.

I have a linked server and I'm having a tough time referencing it properly.If I open SQL Management Studio and run a query on the server itself it works great.However, I want to take that query ...

You need to make sure you give some thought to logins, linked servers, SQL Agent jobs, credentials, proxies and anything else that exists outside of your user databases that could affect the ...

A fundamental skill for DBAs is to have a firm understanding of the SQL Server database engine's system databases. Tim Chapman discusses these system databases.