Re: Concurrency in an RDB

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 15:54:20 GMT
Message-ID: <MgAfh.31925$cz.476853@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Bob Badour wrote:

> monarodan_at_gmail.com wrote:
>

>> To all those stating that David should do some background reading - did
>> you bother to look into Operational Transform (OT) as mentioned by
>> David? There is potentially a whole new way of thinking about databases
>> and distributed systems that should not be ignored.

>
> What's new about it? I saw nothing novel in his suggestion.

Let me clarify the question: How does David's operation transform proposal differ from "update anywhere-anytime-anyway" mentioned (not quite a decade ago) in:
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=P115 Received on Tue Dec 12 2006 - 09:54:20 CST