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Re: Just got back from SQL*Server 2000 training...

From: James Manning <oracle_at_sublogic.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 14:48:32 -0800
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[Jeremiah Wilton]
> How about the good old "readers can block writers?" That one never
> fails to make jaws drop. Not just SQL Server, though. Informix and
> Sybase too.

Is there a specific list of DBMS systems (Oracle is definitely one, obviously) where "readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers"? I had heard Progress was on that list, but never confirmed.

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