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What is MSDTC is doing?

edited Nov 10, 2009 8:07AM in Database Install/Upgrade/Opatch (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered
I noticed that before applying patches to the database, I need to shutdown MSDTC service to free up some dlls it locks on.  I'm just curious what this MSDTC service is doing? If I don't start it, what would be the impact for my oracle database? 

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