Re: "Transactions are bad, real bad" - discuss

"Pablo Sanchez" <pablo_at_dev.null> wrote in message news:Xns936F5E05242C2pingottpingottbah_at_216.166.71.233...
> "Paul Vernon" <paul.vernon_at_ukk.ibmm.comm> wrote in
> news:b8to09$2178$1_at_gazette.almaden.ibm.com:
>
> > 12:15 is some arbitrary time after the auction closes and after the row
> > was committed.
> >
> > Maybe you need to try it in your favourite DBMS. I don't have
> > Oracle, so can only simulate it's AS OF function:
>
> ebay uses Oracle as their backend.
>

and your point is?

Although if it is to chide me for mentioning another DBMS a little too often for a theory newsgroup. Accept my apologies.

Regards
Paul Vernon
Business Intelligence, IBM Global Services Received on Fri May 02 2003 - 18:18:15 CEST