{"id":750,"date":"2007-11-08T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T08:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/bobb\/post\/Barcelona-Day-4-TransactionsIsolation-and-OLE-DB-v-ODBC.aspx"},"modified":"2007-11-08T08:26:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T08:26:22","slug":"barcelona-day-4-transactionsisolation-and-ole-db-v-odbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/bobb\/barcelona-day-4-transactionsisolation-and-ole-db-v-odbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Day 4 &#8211; Transactions\/Isolation and OLE DB v ODBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Today, I&#8217;m finishing up my (many) talks at TechEd\/Developers&#8217; Barcelona with a breakout on best practices for transactions and isolation and leading an interactive discussion on OLE DB and ODBC. 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