Re: Dirty reads in Oracle 7.2

From: Gordon E. Hooker <gordonh_at_acslink.net.au>
Date: 1996/01/04
Message-ID: <30ec63fc.988100_at_nntp.peg.apc.org>#1/1


timj_at_baa.uk.sun.com (Tim Jinkerson - Sun UK - Applications Engineer) wrote:
Oracle always give you a read consistent view of the data... Readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers...

>Surely a dirty read is where you read another session's uncommited data. I'm not sure that you can do this in Oracle, in fact, I rather hope that you can't. I've heard that Ingres might suffer from it.
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>Tim
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>These are my own views, not those of my employer.
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_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Gordon E. Hooker MACS PCP
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_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ It is far far better to remain silent and appear a fool then to open ones mouth and remove all doubt.

Anon. Received on Thu Jan 04 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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