Re: Row Level Locking. Informix vs. Oracle

On 8 Mar 98 at 1:38, Peter J. Diaz de Leon wrote: > Recently I was in a discussion with an Oracle DBA > and he stated the Oracle has row level locking, where Informix has > page level locking. I went to Informix's web site and from what I > can tell Informix ODS does row level locking. However, the Oracle > DBA insists Informix does not have row level locking. Ok, could > somebody please tell me who is correct, or am I misunderstanding the > concept of row level locking. Your Oracle DBA friend is confusing Informix with Sybase who, TTBOMK, still don't have row-level locking... HTH. -- /Ciao, \\Billy / \\Group Managing Director, The West Solutions Group: http://www.west.co.za / Chairman, South African Informix User Group: http://www.west.co.za/~saiug \\ Informix FAQ @ http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html / Drivel @ http://www.west.co.za/tasteless/ \\________________________________________________________________________________________________