Re: To scale or to be correct: that is the question

[Evan Ireland]

Tinou Bao wrote:
>
> "business transactions" that really span multiple "regular transactions."  The 
>database should be able to handle concurrency for the later type of transactions.  
>For the former that's the developer's or app server's problem.  Am I missing 
>something?

Relying on the database to handle the "regular transactions" in the general
case is not scalable (with most databases). OCC is relevant at both "regular"
and "business" transaction levels.
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