Re: lies damn lies and benchmarks

Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam> wrote:
>In article <bslC8.377$pa4.220395_at_news.uswest.net>, you said (and I
>quote):
>>
>> Which features does MS SQL not provide that you consider fundamental
>> in an RDBMS?
>
>Not a secret. Read Chris Date's and Ted Codd's 12 rules for RDBMS.

Be careful about mentioning those, Rule 3 in particular (NULL not the same as any other datatype).

>Some:
>Declarative referential integrity would be tops in my list.
>Row locking would be next.
>Readers not blocking writers right up there as well.

I don't see anything in the Codd's rules about lock implementation. It is nice to have these features in a database though.

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