title: Transactions best practices
body: <p>How much do you rely on database transactions?  </p>
  
  <p>Do you prefer small or large transaction scopes ?  </p>
  
  <p>Do you prefer client side transaction handling (e.g. TransactionScope in .NET) over server 
  side transactions or vice-versa?    </p>
  
  <p>What about nested transactions?  </p>
  
  <p>Do you have some tips&amp;tricks related to transactions ?</p>
  
  <p>Any gotchas you encountered working with transaction ?</p>
  
  <p>All sort of answers are welcome.</p>