http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID There is one property which has very special comments about it: " Isolation ... This property of ACID is often relaxed (i.e. partly respected) because of the huge speed decrease this type of concurrency management implies. ... In reality, many alternatives are used due to speed concerns, but none of them guarantees the same reliability. " Could not be said better. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: "Jonathan Lewis" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Oracle L" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 2011.08.23 11:54 Subject: ACID So who knows the meaning of ACID (not the Timothy Leary kind) ? http://tonyhasler.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/why-is-acid-important/ http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/redo-2/ Regards Jonathan Lewis http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
