Re: Is MS-SQL6.5 in the same league as Oracle, Sybase?

I was talking with an Oracle salesperson recently and they said that MS-SecretSquirel has row level locking as a feature but it only works on inserts. Updates must still take out block locks.

If this is true then it might affect your choice.

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