Re: Informix vs. Sybase vs. Oracle vs. (gasp) MS SQL Server

From: Anthony Mandic <no_sp.am_at_agd.nsw.gov.au>
Date: 1997/12/02
Message-ID: <348385DE.2C1_at_agd.nsw.gov.au>#1/1


Gary L. Burnore wrote:
>
> On 01 Dec 1997 09:56:43 -0700, Pablo Sanchez <pablo_at_sgi.com> wrote:
>
> :>>>>> "Gary" == Gary L Burnore <gburnore> writes:
> :Gary>
> :Gary> Tell the airlines that row-level locking isn't
> :Gary> important. If the entire seating table for a flight
> :Gary> was locked for one attendent to assign you a seat,
> :Gary> it'd be caos.
> :
> :I doubt very much that SABRE places a logical lock on a
> :seat. It more than likely updates the row with a "lock
> :out".
>
> You DOUBT? Meaning you don't know? Figures.

	More likely he doubts because he has enough
	experience to know better and he expects SABRE's
	programmers would too. Would you?


> :As I've said, if you look at the TPC-C you can see that for
> :a well behaved application there isn't a problem. How do
> :you refute that Sybase currently has a higher tpmC value
> :than Informix? After all, TPC-C's are OLTP and Informix has
> :row level locking. Answer that for me...
>
> I'm not refuting it. I'm saying it's not based on Sybases lack of row-level
> locking.
	Well, how about enlightening us by telling what it is
	based on?

-am Received on Tue Dec 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CET

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