Re: what's a "reasonable" length of time to keep a cursor open?

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:22:00 +0200
Message-ID: <fakj7u$inc$2@news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

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sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:55:13 GMT, mh_at_pixar.com wrote:
>

>> What's a "reasonable" length of time to keep a cursor open?
>> I'm not looking for a hard and fast number, just a general
>> concensus.  

>
> The general consensus here is 'applications' like this should be
> dumped and rewritten. Or get mended by throwing more iron at the
> problem.
> Surely those teraflops involved in generating moving rats can find
> more useful employment elsewhere.
>

I loved the rats.
And perhaps they came out of a (remote) database?

• -- Regards, Frank van Bortel

Top-posting is one way to shut me up...
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