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From: "Marshall Spight" <mspight@dnai.com>
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"Costin Cozianu" <c_cozianu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:buhbtp$bt01j$1@ID-152540.news.uni-berlin.de...
>
> If you disagree, please show me a post on comp.database.theory that can
> have some reasonable claim that scientific knowledge was being
> discovered and validated in this forum and state of the art advanced,
> cause otherwise I can show you plenty of amateurish psots :)

Attempts to advance the state of the art here are generally shot down fast.

That aside, I'll nominate the discussion of atomic updates as an
alternative to current-style transactions as an example of an
attempt to advance the state of the art through the application
of science, or at least math.


Marshall