Re: Article about supposed "murky" future for Oracle

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 07:45:29 -0800
Message-ID: <1080747910.20726@yasure>

rkusenet wrote:

> The 'hype' I was referring to was the statement by Daniel Morgan that
> "it is IMPOSSIBLE to get a read consistent view for a large set of rows"
> in sqlserver. Note the word impossible.

I should have added ... "without locking the table(s)" ... My mistake.

You can get a read consistent result from anything if you lock everyone else out.

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