Re: distributed concurrency in oracle 7.0

In article <22fh30$f4k_at_tamsun.tamu.edu> sameers_at_cs.tamu.edu (Sameer Soni) writes:
>Hi!
>Can someone tell me how oracle scheduler maintains the concurrency? The only
>thing I could get from the product info was that it uses multiversion data
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>of serializability, the behavior of Oracle is quite similar to that of other
>commercial DBMS products. So, does that mean that most of the commercial DBMS
>products sacrifice serializability? Could somebody give me some examples?
>Thanks a lot.
>sameer
I may get flames for this, but I've never understood why serializable(which IS supported as an INIT.ORA parameter) is used, so if your site requires/uses this feature, could you enlighten me? Also, does using SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY satisfy these requirements???
Thanks for any replies...
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