Finally SQL Server (version 2005) is catching up with Oracle in the area of transactions. Eric blogs about it. It is funny how a feature that should have been in their product a long time ago is now emphasized as something great. The success of Microsoft is definitely caused by their marketing strategies.
Hey, wake up: locking as a transaction-mechanism is something from the eighties. Oracle switched from table-locking to row-locking when they went from version 5 to version 6. But in version 5 they already had versioning: the bi and ai journals. Oracle is now at version 10g…
