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Mark Townsend wrote:
> Serge Rielau wrote:
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>> Galen Boyer wrote: >> >>> On 19 Feb 2006, galen_boyer_at_yahoo.com wrote: >>> >>> >>>> When would you ever want to read uncommitted records? >> >> >> Uncommitted read is just fine for anything statistical. >> When mining a DSS or ODS system there is no need to get exact data. >> Whether someone returned a pair of shoes or not is irrelevant for >> trend analysis. >> Does Oracle support query sampling? If so, there you go...
Seems to me we have a semi-official statement from IBM that exact answers when data mining are unimportant.
I can see the full-page four-colour advertisement now. ;-)
-- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)Received on Tue Feb 21 2006 - 11:28:16 CST