Re: Usage of RowId...

Rowid's are physical refernces to data rows in Oracle 7 and relative references in Oracle 8, they are of no use as timestamp fields for use with optimistic locking, other than they can be used in place of primary keys. If you wish to implement an optimistic locking strategy create a column in you table of type date.

Regards
David Russell

Brian K. Lawton wrote in message <6gnqgc$86d$1_at_ha2.rdc1.md.home.com>...
>If I'm trying to implement optimistic concurrency within my database, is
 the
>RowId attribute the correct place to be checking? If not, what is Oracle's
>equivalent to SQL Server's timestamp datatype?
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Received on Sat Apr 11 1998 - 00:00:00 CEST