Re: OO and relation "impedance mismatch"

From: Kenneth Downs <firstinit.lastname_at_lastnameplusfam.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 08:22:43 -0400
Message-ID: <jec3kc.l7g.ln@mercury.downsfam.net>

Tony Andrews wrote:

> Kenneth Downs wrote:

>> > I look forward to it.  As I have said before, I know for a fact

> that

>> > your approach wouldn't work 100% for Oracle (which doesn't even

> support

>> > dirty reads), but I can't be so sure about other DBMSs.
>>
>> I have not used Oracle yet seriously, but considering most colleagues

> who

>> have tell me it can "everything", I would be willing to be a dollar

> that it

>> can somehow do it by another name.  For instance, DB/2 calls it a
>> "non-repeatable read", which name is self-explanatory, though perhaps

> it

>> should have been called "potentially non-repeatable read."

>
> You'd lose that dollar. Oracle doesn't do dirty reads at all:
>
>

So admitted. Do I send it to your favorite charity? :)

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Kenneth Downs
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Received on Thu Oct 07 2004 - 07:22:43 CDT