>hi
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>I have an importing process that is loading members into a SQL table.
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>There are several other tables that I also have to create entries in for address, subscription etc.
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>I've wrapped everything in a transaction so if one item fails I can rollback nothing gets added and that all works ok.
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>Is there any way I can update a file outside the transaction while its running. I don't want one particular thing to be based on the transaction at all.
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>Thanks

Use table variable - it does not participate in a transaction. You can append from this table variable into real table.