umailedit (7/16/2008)
It seems primitive to require locks for any read operation. In Oracle I think readers don't lock/block anything.
Somehow I doubt that Oracle defaults to dirty reads, so what does it do when one connection selects data that another connection is in the process of updating or deleting?
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
Property of The Thread
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon