Re: Article about supposed "murky" future for Oracle

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:19:25 -0800
Message-ID: <1080782348.656876@yasure>

rkusenet wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote
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>>Depends on whether the architecture is such that you have minimized the
>>possibility of multiple transactions attempting to update the same row
>>at essentially the same time.

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> if the above is true, then thank god we are not using oracle bcos we
> have multiple sessions trying to grab same row from a queue table.
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>>We all design to maximize our strengths
>>and to minimize our weaknesses: Or at least we should.

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> well said.

Thanks. But then I could point out that if you did have Oracle you'd have the DBMS_AQ built-in package and Oracle's Advanced Queueing so the issue you describe wouldn't exist.

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