Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: Norris <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk>
Date: 5 Apr 2000 16:16:51 GMT
Message-ID: <8cfotj$1hnu$1@adenine.netfront.net>

Yes, Only Oracle has true row locking. I am not selling Oracle. All other vendors are false. half-baked row-locking design. Which never worked. Cripes, what a load of rubbish. Why did I bother? I KNEW I was wasting my time...

>>>The only one back then with true row locking, BTW.
>>
>>Sorry to be picky - but the first Db with row-level locking was RDB on
>>VMS. Oracle bought them and tried to "kill" it!!
>>
>>-old VMS guy

> And you are quite correct. I well remember the hoops I had to go
> through with V5 ORACLE to explain away the lack of row-locking when
> put against RDB...

> Never unsderstood how Dec found out it would be lucrative to sell RDB
> off. They were making in maintenance alone per year what ORACLE paid
> for it!...

> When I was refering to "the only one", I meant the only one of the
> three in this thread: Sybase, sql server and ORACLE. Sorry, I should
> have been more clear.

> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html

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http://www.cooper.com.hk Received on Wed Apr 05 2000 - 11:16:51 CDT