RE: MySQL vs. Oracle database

Here's a quote from a most definitive resource, New Riders' book "MySQL" by Paul DuBois,

"The server has two kinds of locking. It uses internal locking to keep requests from clients from interfering with each other-- for example, to keep one client's SELECT query from being interrupted by another client's UPDATE query." (p. 472.)

Steve Orr
Bozeman, Montana

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Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:19 AM
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What makes you think that MySQL has read consistency?

> For read
> consistency I think MySQL is actually putting locks on tables
> during a query
> and when you have some intense queries with a lot of concurrent
> users they
> have to wait in line like 1000 rowdy kindergardeners.

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