On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:27:28AM -0500, Chris Winters wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 22:41, Rob Nagler wrote: > > Depends on what you mean by "need". If you need row-level locking or > > a standby database, it's Oracle or DB2 afaik. > > I think this kind of begs the question :-) Do most apps *need* these > features? It's the same kind of attitude I mentioned above: Oracle is > the answer to every question. Even if you just have 200 MB and no more > than 50 max concurrent users doing normal browse/create/update > operations, and normal backup operations will be just fine. (And IIRC, I > believe that Sybase ASE, Sybase ASA, Microsoft SQL Server, and > PostgreSQL all have row-level locking or versions implementing the same > concept.)
MySQL with the new InnoDB type tables has row-level locking with full transaction support as well.. Ajit
