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- From: rjk@world.std.com (robert j kolker)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: What is Oracle?
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:16:32 GMT
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- If I may follow up Mike Stouts reply, a relational database management
- system also manages *transaction* and resolves conflicting access to data
- (particularly write accesses) at the finest level of granualarity. This
- way it is possible to maximize the throughput of several simulteneous
- writer/updaters to the database.
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- This could also be managed with ENQUE/DEQUE facilities in most operating
- systems, but a particular application could not have a global view of the
- usage of a database among several users so it would be difficult to
- control conflicting accesses at the application code level without all
- sorts of kludgery.
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- Admittedly, DBMS systems at this state of technology are resource hogs,
- but they do repay by providing safety, and integrity of the data, which
- would be difficult, if not impossible, with descrete applications.
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- Robert J. Kolker
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