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Trace why a transaction is escalated to DTC

Is there any way to determine precisely why a System.Transaction TrasactionScope is being escalated to the DTC? We are hitting a bump with one of our components that seem to escalate the transaction while all other components (which seem deceptively…
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SQL Server lock escalation issue

I am reading SQL Server lock escalation from MSDN Page about SQL Server lock escalation My question is, seems the major reason why there is lock escalation is to reduce overhead to maintain more locks (e.g. when more row locks are acquired for a…
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Nested TransactionScope and/or nested connections causing MSDTC escalation

I am trying to avoid MSDTC escalation in my application. I am using LINQ with SQL Server Express 2008 R2, and later will be using the full version. I have written a database wrapper class which creates connections as necessary and disposes of them…
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Escalating Privilages in Python Script

I am looking for a way to escalate privileges within a python GUI app I'm developing. My desired model is GUFW. I like how you don't have to run the main program as root, but when you do anything "rooty," you have to "unlock" it. I have a program…
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How to determine if elevated priveleges are required to start a process without checking-by-failure

How do I go about checking whether privelege elevation is required to start a subprocess without trying first then failing? I need to start a subprocess command from within python code. In some cases it works fine, in other cases it turns out that…
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Entity Framework 6 prevent transaction escalation when using multiple contexts that refer to the same database

I've stubled upon a problem, and I'm unable to find an answer (or my google skills are really rubbish). Our solution is an ASP MVC4 C# website and multiple class libraries. We use MS SQL2008 and EntityFramework 6. Let's say I've got Foo and Bar…
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C Privilege Escalation (With Password)

I need to write a C program that will allow me to read/write files that are owned by root. However, I can only run the code under another user. I have the root password, but there are no "sudo" or "su" commands on the system, so I have no way of…
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Schedule a Maximo escalation for multiple days?

Dear Stackoverflow community, In Maximo (IBM Control Desk) I have an escalation that I would like to run on 00:00 (midnight) on Tuesday and on Thursday. Using the GUI, I can only select one day and not two. GUI : Every (om de) 1 week (weken) on (op…
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ansible lookup plugin privilege escalation does not seem to work

It seems that the ansible lookup plugin does not adhere to privilege escalation and it is not clear to me if this is by design. I have looked for an answer to this, but though I have found many similar questions, I haven't yet seen one which seems…
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Ansible privilege escalation prompt problem

--- - name: Transfer and execute a script. hosts: jumpbox remote_user: pppruser any_errors_fatal: true gather_facts: no become: true become_method: su become_user: splunk become_flags: '-s /bin/sh' tasks: - name: Transfer the…
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What is the difference between interrupting escalation event and error event?

As I understand escalation event is used to inform parent process. If escalation event is interrupting, it means that regular flow will be ignored and a new flow will be handled. But it is similar to error event. What is the difference?
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How to privilege escalate www-data when you're logged in as www-data

On Linux, how can I give www-data more permissions/privileges when I am logged in as that user? whoami = www-data A bit of background. I have performed an ethical hack on a web application, I have managed to upload a file by bypassing the extension…
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Finding cause of Lock escalation

While running SQL Server Profiler I reached some Lock:Escalations. When I searched for Statements having same SPID as Lock:Escalation event I realized that one of delete statements causes this. Is there any way to find out why lock escalation in…
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Avoiding Escalation to DTC for SQL Azure

I was testing my code by disabling MSDTC and wanted to make sure that no transaction within my code gets escalated(Trace why a transaction is escalated to DTC). Now the code seems to work fine and there isn't any peoblem related to DTC. Should I be…
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MSDTC error on different databases, same server

I'm currently trying to correct this error: System.Transactions.TransactionManagerCommunicationException: Network access for Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been disabled. Please enable DTC for network access in the security…
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