Re: The demise of the Oracle professional?

And it was the 'row at a time' issue that I find causes most contention issues,
kicks scalability into touch, and makes the CPU upgrade pretty irrelevant.

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Nuno Souto wrote in message
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>In article <1023865801.19767.0.nnrp-01.9e984b29_at_news.demon.co.uk>, you said

(and I quote):


>>

>> I have to disagree with the last point.

>> "CPU grunt" only addresses scalability

>> in the complete absence of contention.

>




>               Relational databases then allowed us to become free from the

>"record at a time" paradigm (something the deranged entity beans want to

>drag us back to...).

>