Re: Comparison of DB2 and Oracle?

OK, here is the deal:
When you execute a dynamic statement which depends on table T. DB2 will hold a usage lock on T until the end of the transaction. So noone will be able to alter T (in a non-trivial way) until this transaction is over.
An alternate design would be to release the lock after usage. However in the interest of keeping the cache fast the capturing of locks needs to be minimized. Schema evolution is considered a much rarer (more rare??) event than cache-hits

Does that answer the comment?

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Serge Received on Thu Oct 21 2004 - 15:25:44 CEST