Re: Object-oriented thinking in SQL context?

Walter Mitty wrote:
...
> Concurrency, transaction control, and ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated,
> and Durable). These are big concepts that permit a database server to
> serve diffferent transactions concurrently, without the actions of one
> participant propagting chaotically onto the view that another transaction
> has of the current state of affairs.
> ...

Not to criticize the rest of the post, but regarding ACID, Date, for one, has pointed out that it is flawed, rather ironically, in that it doesn't prevent a single user of a db from violating integrity, assuming they are using an 'imperative' language. Received on Tue Jun 09 2009 - 20:37:07 CEST