>I did not read Nancy's post. What I did read was Ed's description of what was not a job for Tx's. In fact, the scenario he outlined was definitely a job for Tx's, one where all updates to all tables have to occur, or none should occur. This is clearly a scenario for Tx's. He stated that buffering was the way to handle this.

John,

Yeah, I know. That was my first impression but I think it may a language thing this time. I reread Nancy's message and tehn reread Eds and he was talking about teh description Nancy made as the one that is not a situation for a transaction.