Re: "Transactions are bad, real bad" - discuss

"Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message news:Xns936F8724A1737pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233... [snip]
> >> ebay uses Oracle as their backend.
> >>
> >
> > and your point is?
>
> Sorry, I guess I was too obtuse, your example was using a TX for an
> auction and then you cited Oracle. I found it humorous that Ebay
> (auction) is using Oracle with transactions.

Humm, I don't quite see the humour. Unless, that is, that you have read my postings as saying that it is impossible to build an applications that does enforce time sensitive business rules in SQL DBMS systems? Of course it is possible, but it's nothing like as easy, and you *have* to have an application in the way between the users and the database. The database cannot guarantee to enforce the rules itself.

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Tue May 06 2003 - 12:21:01 CDT