Transaction aware batch processing using ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’

Rajeev Pentyala – Dynamics 365 Blog:

In this article, I am going to discuss about transaction aware batch processing in ExecuteMultipleRequest using ExecuteTransactionRequest.

Is ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’ not a transaction aware?

  • By design, ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’ is non-transactional.
  • Which means ‘Request’ objects added to ‘ExecuteMultipleRequest’ are independent of each other and if any exception occurred in any of the ‘Request’ will not roll back previously committed ‘Requests’.
  • However you have an option to stop the batch (i.e., By setting ContinueOnError = false), if any exception occurs.
  • Important to note is that, this behavior is not a transaction aware and ‘Requests’ executed prior to the error, will still be committed.

How can we achieve ‘Transaction’ in Batch execution?

  • Using ExecuteTransactionRequest, we can achieve ‘Transaction’ (i.e., Commit and Rollback) in Batch execution
  • ExecuteTransactionRequest will execute the all the ‘Requests’ in a single transaction.
  • If any exception occurred in any of the ‘Request’ execution, will roll back all the previously…

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Hope this helps…

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PMDY