What's New in Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server

This section describes new features of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) and provides pointers to additional information.

The following sections describe the new features in Oracle Services for Microsoft Transaction Server.

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) New Features

  • Support for Promotable Single Phase Enlistment

    Oracle database now allows all transactions to remain local until more than one database is brought into the transaction, at which point, they are promoted to distributed transactions.

  • Transparent Distributed Transactions on Real Applications Clusters

    The database now redirects all the branches of a distributed transaction to a single Oracle RAC instance automatically.