Re: Avoiding any locks in SQL Servers - read and understand....itsmagic.

From: Madison Pruet <mpruet_at_comcast.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 20:19:35 GMT
Message-ID: <r%P1b.236976$YN5.160428@sccrnsc01>

"Guido Stepken" <g.stepken_at_t-online.de> wrote in message news:bi68ai$9oj$05$1_at_news.t-online.com...
> Hi, Joel !
>
> Sure, i have noticed, that VMS still ist a very stable server and has
> clustering, is very fast....i didn't know that DEC has invented
> versioning, thanx....
>
> I don't think, that oracle's locking strategy is so muc advanced, since
> no two transactions can write into a database at the same time ....
>

What!!!!! Are you saying that Oracle processing is totally serialized. As I understand it, Oracle does not support multiple databases per instance and this would mean that all Oracle inserts/updates/deletes are serial processes?

Surely they are more advanced than that. Or is this another half-truth???? Received on Sat Aug 23 2003 - 15:19:35 CDT