Re: Oracle Server Pricing Scheme

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:40:58 GMT
Message-ID: <3b2dbc96.913104@news-server>

On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:14:25 -0600, "Joe and Anne Buhl" <jabuhl_at_qwest.net> wrote:

>> MySql lacks many, many features Oracle has, it even doesn't have row level
>> locking.
>
>So What. Obviously his application does not need all the Oracle baggage and
>there are hundreds of high transaction, enterprise applications running
>without row level locking.
>

I find it funny how row-level locking was of *CAPITAL* importance for RDBMS until the exact moment that ORACLE implemented it in a fashion that doesn't degrade with load.

After that, it became the *so what* above. Interesting, isn't it?

:-)

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Mon Jun 18 2001 - 03:40:58 CDT