Hi Phil Thank you for your inputs. My application is web based so i would be using connection pooling and the locking there would be different (wherein i would use a timestamp or something to see if a row is changed) and then do the dml. Do you think i should still be concerned about this difference in behaviour regards Hrishy --- Phil Singer <SingerM0n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peter McLarty wrote: > > Its not that it is impossible, but if I was going > to do it I would > > firstly have GOLD support with MS, because when > things go wrong you > > might just wish you had it. > > You need a very well architected application, that > is written to handle > > the idiosyncrasies of SQL Server locking, or you > will constantly have > > issues with it. There is a new feature called read > consistent snapshot > > that I would recommend, that should alleviate it > somewhat. > > > Once again, I would _dearly_ love someone who > actually understands SS > Snapshot Versioning to explain it's pros and cons in > Oracle terms. > Because the little bit that I have been able to > understand suggests that > it is nothing more than a timebomb waiting to go > off, with M$'s blessing. > > That's a little too harsh without some expansion. > As I understand it, > this feature is supposed to work just like Oracle's > undo segments. > Except that it is not controlled at the database > level, but at the > session level. The question is, what would happen > if you got two > sessions going at the same time, with one announcing > "I'm using snapshot > isolation" and the other saying 'Go ahead, I'm > not!'? > > More of my understanding: if this causes bad things > to happen, M$'s > position is, that it's all your fault. > > > > ---------------------- > Phil Singer | > SingerM0n@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 6216 Kevin in Beautiful Brighton | Just 7 hairpin > turns > "OCP, PhD, and all-around Good Guy | north of > Hamburg > _______________________________________________________ Juggling multiple email accounts? Why bother? Consolidate them all in Yahoo! Mail with our quick, easy tool. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/trueswitch_overview -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l