RE: Unable to position within table

Goldrick, Jim said: > > Our admissions office locks records continuously. They're on the phone > with students in update mode and they lock rows in several heavily used > tables, sometimes for great lengths of time. I generally have to set > isolation to dirty read for web apps and web reports. Badly written application. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche did i mention i like nulls? heck, i even go so far as to say that all columns in a table except the primary key could/should be nullable. this has certain advantages, for example, if you need to insert a child record and you don't have a parent row for it, just do an insert into the parent table with the primary key value (everything else null), and voila, relational integrity is preserved. but this is, admittedly, a bit controversial among modellers. --r937, dbforums.com