Re: Which Database (MySQL, Oracle, mSQL, Protgress etc.)

From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy_at_druid.net>
Date: 1998/02/24
Message-ID: <34F2A937.41C67EA6_at_druid.net>#1/1


Christopher Browne wrote:
> As the morons move from two tier client server applications (that put a
> heavy load directly onto the RDBMSes) to using three tiers and more,
> they are increasingly using things like TP monitors that are responsible
> for handling transaction management. This takes responsibility for this
> away from the RDBMS.

But if you move transaction management out of the RDBMS and into userland code then you no longer have a relational system. You just have a DBMS. It may have some relational features but so does dBase.

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