(All links go to the named Wikipedia article) ESE/ESENT is an embedded database engine providing ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable) transactions with snapshot isolation using multi-version concurrency control and the ARIES variant of write...

Although the ESENT API has been available in the Windows SDK for several years, I don't think enough people are aware of it. I have a blog post on the Windows SDK blog that gives an overview of ESENT and has a tiny 'hello world' program. http://blogs...

Who : I'm Laurion Burchall, a Software Engineer on the Ese/Esent team. What : A blog about the Esent API. Why : Esent is an incredibly powerful embedded database engine that is part of Windows. It used by the Active Directory, Windows Desktop Search...

This is an ESENT programming error I've made a few times, watch out for this pattern: JET_TABLEID tableid = JET_tableidNil; JetBeginTransaction(sesid); JetOpenTable(sesid, dbid, "table", &tableid, ...); (do some stuff) if (success) JetCommitTransaction...

JetSeek() takes three parameters, a JET_SESID, a JET_TABLEID and a JET_GRBIT. With a lot of esent APIs that take a grbit, passing in 0 is a good way to get the default options, but JetSeek should never be called with a grbit of 0 . The problem is that...