This story starts, as all stories should, with me sitting on a beach outside of Sao Paolo, Brazil. My team was releasing some bug fixes to our production setup (we do this every week). When I got back, I saw that our sites were having very intermittent...
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's a thousand words. The situation is that we have a 32-bit SQL2k cluster and a linked 32-bit SQL2k machine (they link in both directions) and we need to execute distributed transactions across both...