# Transactional Session with NHibernate Persistence

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In order to use the [transactional session feature](/nservicebus/transactional-session/index.md) with NHibernate Persistence, add a reference to the `NServiceBus.NHibernate.TransactionalSession` NuGet package.

## Configuration

To enable the transactional session feature:

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```cs
var persistence = config.UsePersistence<NHibernatePersistence>();
persistence.EnableTransactionalSession();
```

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## Opening a session

To open a NHibernate transactional session:

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```cs
using var childScope = serviceProvider.CreateScope();
var session = childScope.ServiceProvider.GetService<ITransactionalSession>();
await session.Open();

// use the session

await session.Commit();
```

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## Transaction usage

Message and database operations made via the transactional session are committed together once the session is committed:

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```cs
await session.Open();

// add messages to the transaction:
await session.Send(new MyMessage());

// access the database:
var nhibernateSession = session.SynchronizedStorageSession.Session();

await session.Commit();
```

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See the [NHibernate shared session documentation](/persistence/nhibernate/accessing-data.md) for further details about using the transaction.

> [!WARNING]
> In order to guarantee atomic consistency across message and database operations, the [outbox](/nservicebus/outbox/index.md) must be enabled. Otherwise `Commit` executes database modifications first and then messages are dispatched with best-effort.