Re: Oracle transactions and DDL statements.

On 10.05.2006 13:30 Vladimir M. Zakharychev wrote:
> Actually it looks like I'm wrong and it's doable within
> BEGIN TRAN..END TRAN block. Amazing. I wonder
> how they manage to rollback an ALTER TABLE of
> a big existing table....

Well actually there *is* an Oracle database that requires a COMMIT for a DDL: rdb

At least it was implemented that way when it still was called rdb/VMS (or was it VAX/rdb?) and was still owned by Digital Equipment.

Thomas

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