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From: Paul <paul@see.my.sig.com>
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Subject: Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.
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DA Morgan <damorgan@psoug.org> wrote:


> Wouldn't be surprised. I'm waiting for Microsoft to release SQL Server
> 2005 and its blatant attempt to imitate Oracle's multiversion read
> consistency. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the law suits are already
> drawn up: They should be!


Interbase has used MVCC (Multi Generational Architecture,
record-versioning, record-shadowing - whatever you want to call it)
for years and didn't steal it. Apparently, according to Jim Starkey
the creator of Interbase, he invented MVCC.


Paul...


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Oracle, 9.2.0.1.0 (Enterprise Ed.)
Interbase 6.0.1.0;

When asking database related questions, please give other posters 
some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL.
The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't work!").
Thanks.
 
Furthermore, as a courtesy to those who spend 
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do not top post.